Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Only 30% of applications are from women, which is something I would like to have examined in the review of the system which will take place in the next few months. We are here tonight debating whether an eminent public figure, not a member of the party led by the Tánaiste, who is considering standing against the candidates of the Labour Party in the forthcoming Seanad election, and appointed in a manner that everybody has acknowledged is consistent with the specific, well-published guidelines - perhaps there are those in Sinn Féin who cannot read them but I circulated them, they are published and this clause was in it-----

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