Marc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Will the Taoiseach make himself available to answer questions in the House for a lengthy period rather than 30 seconds on the obscurity around public appointments? There is a crisis in confidence about public accountability in the senior echelons of our Civil Service. Following today's interview by the Minister for Health, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, accounting for the secondment to Trinity College Dublin, TCD, at €187,000 per year, which is a multimillion euro cost to the taxpayer, there is a crisis and people like me who have been around the Houses for 20 years can be forgiven-----

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