Michael McDowell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

-----rather than a well-considered view of what is needed in the appointment of judges. That was absolutely confirmed for me when I discovered in last week's edition of The Sunday Timesthat his extremely ill-considered proposal to have a committee of Dáil Éireann vet all judicial appointments, with the majority being Opposition Members, was placed before him for negotiation with the Fine Gael Party but he stamped his little foot in order to try to persuade Fine Gael to adopt its policy. As the article's reference to a book by Ms Jennifer Carroll MacNeill makes clear, eventually this compromise emerged and this was enough to satisfy the Minister's-----