Imelda Munster (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I raise the matter of the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Deputy Ryan, appointing two of his pals to the Climate Change Advisory Council. I remember when the Zappone scandal happened that the Minister said lessons needed to be learned from this and we needed to make sure it does not ever happen again. An Oireachtas committee recommended that appointments to the council go through an open process. The Government collectively rejected that and now we know why. The Taoiseach let Fine Gael walk all over him with the Zapponegate scandal. Now, it appears he does not have any control over his Green Party Ministers. The Minister, Deputy Ryan, is a Minister in the Taoiseach's Government. Is the Taoiseach going to keep turning a blind eye to that? Is he happy that the Fianna Fáil-Fine Gael culture has now rubbed off on the Green Party when it comes to giving plum positions to political friends or is it that he is so desperate to be Taoiseach that anything goes in his Government and he has lost control of it? Which is it?

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