John Minihan (Progressive Democrats)

Be it in business or appointing directors to companies, there is a system whereby people apply according to their knowledge, experience and suitability. People approach them and ask if they would serve on the boards of various companies. That is how it should be vis-À-vis an executive authority, that is the Government, making the same types of approaches, and that is how it must be. If we go down the route that some people here are predicting for no reason other than to engage in political play-acting——