Michael McDowell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

This is fairly important because I had understood until this afternoon - and the Bill has been on Committee Stage for some considerable period as we are all well aware - that the shortlist was to be an inordinated shortlist, one in which three names appeared without any signal to the Government as to which was the most preferred, the second most preferred and the third most preferred candidate. Maybe I am missing something in the legislation that suggests the commission is to present an ordered shortlist but I had not seen this until now.