Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Taoiseach has announced that this day next month we will have a new framework for appointments to State boards. Will this require legislation or will it be just another circular that will be issued and ignored? When will we be able to discuss this legislation? It sounds from what has been said publicly by the Taoiseach and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Brendan Howlin, as though the only change is that any person the Government wants to put on a State board will be required to send a curriculum vitae to the Commission for Public Service Appointments. That will then work its way back to the Minister who can ignore the process and appoint anyone from the list that comes back.

When the Personal Insolvency Act 2012 was going through the Oireachtas, it was well flagged - the Government was well warned - that there were major flaws in the legislation which rendered it incapable of working. Reports show that there are very few insolvency declarations taking place. The Government has a Bill on the legislative programme to correct the foreseeable failures of the Act. When will we see that legislation?

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