Michael McDowell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

Sorry. The commission must put forward three unless it thinks no one else is suitable. The point I am making is that we are creating a complete curtain of ignorance behind which the Government is to operate. We are creating a situation whereby if the judicial appointments commission's first and second preference - and it alone will know this - have been overlooked in favour of its third preference, it will have to decide the next time around, given that the Government was not particularly interested in the candidates the last time, whether to just drop A and B in future or whether to stick with A and B and add D to the list and see what the Government decides. If D gets-----