Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Can the Minister say for how long they have to be advertised and how long it will take the Public Appointments Service, PAS, to examine the applications and make recommendations to the Minister? The Minister will then presumably have to submit these appointments for approval by Government or Cabinet. Can she give an estimate of how long this process is likely to take? She has referred to legal difficulties and perhaps procedural difficulties. Would she care to enlighten us on what the legal difficulties may have been? Can she just tell us when she is going to get on with it and when the appointments are going to be made? They will land on her desk and I assume she will make a selection from those persons deemed by the PAS to be eligible and suitable for appointment.

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