Michael McDowell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I refer the Minister to section 16(1) which deals with the procedures committee and its role in the case of applicants for judicial office. It states:

The Commission shall establish a committee to be known as the Judicial Appointments Procedures Committee (in this Act referred to as the “Procedures Committee”) to perform the functions assigned to that Committee under this Act and such other functions of the Commission as the Commission considers appropriate.

I do not see how applicants for judicial office would be dealt with by that committee.