Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

As I said, I did not know the appointment was going to be made until the Cabinet meeting when the memo was presented, but I was aware the day before or the evening before that it might be a possibility, because anyone who follows these issues would know that there was a vacancy at the Court of Appeal and a former Attorney General might be the kind of person to be nominated to that. That is no secret because it was in the newspapers last week. I think it was in The Irish Times, in fact.

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