Darragh O'Brien (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Why was the IMMA board not advised of this appointment? More importantly, has it met to ratify Mr. McNulty's application? If one is put forward as a nominee to a board - this would happen in any company - it needs to be ratified at a board meeting. Furthermore, Members received letters this morning outlining that they would receive registered letters tomorrow with the ballot paper to vote in what is now a sham election with a sham Government candidate. This is important in the sense that the Taoiseach has again undermined a democratically elected House of Parliament and does not seem to realise how serious is this issue.
I again propose an amendment to the Order of Business: "That the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht answer some of the questions she was asked the other day." All I want her to outline is who asked her to appoint Mr. McNulty to the board of IMMA. Was it the Taoiseach or someone else? Why did she appoint him when he had not even made an application?