Charles Flanagan (Laois, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The chairman of the Scotland commission is Mrs. Nicola Gordon who is an engineer by profession and an expert in international petroleum and gas engineering. She is the non-legal, independent and very successful chair of the Judicial Appointments Board for Scotland. There are four judges on the board in Scotland and in Ireland it is proposed to have five. The board in Scotland has six lay members and six non-lay members. I do not accept the suggestion that the proposed commission in Ireland is unique or, as has been said, that it is fundamentally flawed.