Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

-----it would appear, or making interests known, by judges. A procedure was put in place. It is not on a statutory basis but a procedure was put in place and the Judiciary is well aware of that procedure.

We now have the possibility of extremely comprehensive legislation coming before the House next week. Work on the new legislation will now move forward under the guidance of my colleague, the new Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Flanagan, and I ask all Deputies to support this legislation. I ask Fianna Fáil to support this legislation.

I reaffirm once again what the Taoiseach said earlier. There was a suitable person appointed by a lawful process. Talk here of this being outside the law or circumventing the law is not accurate. No matter how much the Opposition tries to make this into an issue different from that, what happened here was that a suitable person who was appropriately qualified was appointed to a vacancy lawfully using a correct process.

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