Sean Barrett (Independent) | Oireachtas source

The amendment seeks to untie the Minister's hands. The wording of the provision need not be as stated in the section, namely: "A person may not be appointed as an appointed director unless he or she is a person who is an employee of the Executive holding the grade of national director in the Executive." Are there people in private hospitals or people in private insurance companies, to which the Minister referred, who could help him in this task? I appreciate Senator Gilroy's point that the provision is for the short term but it will create difficulties outside the executive when people learn that we had to do it this way because the process would take too long if we advertised the posts and so on.