Darragh O'Brien (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I do, if I am allowed to ask it. What is the Government?s policy on advertising job vacancies within the public and Civil Service? Is it Government policy to appoint an individual without there being any public advertising of the job and an individual to a position in the Department of a Labour Party colleague? Furthermore, will the Leader confirm that the Minister for Education and Skills knew nothing about the issue and that neither did the Tánaiste whose wife has been appointed as a special policy adviser from January to work with the Minister for Education and Skills?