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

The Government, on the advice of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Michael McGrath, is nominating the former Senator, Geraldine Feeney, to be a member of SIPO. The idea of having a former politician on SIPO is to have somebody who has a working understanding the work we do as politicians. I think it was Mr. Jim O'Keeffe in the past and it is now proposed to be Geraldine Feeney. Obviously, whether there is a debate on it would be a matter for the Business Committee rather than for me.

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