Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

-----wherein a Government Department and a Minister are best placed to be able to set up this advisory board. It is a very specific board, very different to any of the other commercial or semi-State boards all being appointed at the one time, and it required that a chair and a board be put in place very quickly in order for us to be able to meet our climate advisory targets. To my mind, the process that had been followed previously had worked and should be followed again, which is what we did. It was a process where, with my Government colleagues, there was a full-sharing of all the names in the correct timelines according to the Cabinet handbook, done to the letter of the law. The outcome shows that this was the correct approach.

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