Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The independent Policing Authority will be in a position to make the appointments to senior ranks as and from 31 December. The independent Policing Authority is well aware, as the memorandum for Government stated in the summer time, that the responsibility would pass to it by or on 31 December. I am sure it is making arrangements to be in a position to fill senior appointments, as will be its completely independent responsibility, shortly after that date. Deputy Martin queried the appointments that were made, as was his right. He also queried why the authority was not doing it in July.

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