The alternative, where the Government could decide on a given morning to put ten people on the Bench in a given court, might be regarded as insufficiently transparent or accountable for most people's taste. If we move from direct legislation stipulating the exact amount of judges to a more flexible one where this can be done by a regulation or order made by the Government, most Oireachtas Members would expect that they would be consulted before such a decision was made. There must be some relationship between democratic accountability to both Houses of the Oireachtas and the number of people that serve as judges.