Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Tuesday's business sees the Government trying to push through a motion to appoint Geraldine Feeney to the Standards in Public Office Commission, SIPO. Not only is it trying to force through that motion without any debate, last week I pointed out that the Government's appointee to the commission was a professional, paid lobbyist on behalf of the National Association of General Practitioners, NAGP. We know that the Tánaiste provided confidential documents to the president of that group, who at that time was his friend. We are now looking at an unprecedented situation that while the Act requires us to appoint a former Member of the Oireachtas, the Government believes we should actually appoint not only a former Member, but a paid lobbyist and someone who was registered as a lobbyist up until a couple of weeks ago. The Taoiseach is well aware of this because Geraldine Feeney lobbied the Taoiseach a number of years ago on the NAGP-----

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