Michael McDowell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

Just leaving it to the commission to make up its own mind is hardly satisfactory. If the purpose of this legislation is to have a transparent process and one is going to say that the commission is obliged to give an order of preference, surely that information must be available to the people recommended, or not, as a matter of law, not just as a matter of the commission's discretion? If I come first on the list and somebody who was recommended as number three gets the position, surely either I am or I am not, as a matter of law, entitled to know that is the situation? Saying that one would leave it to the commission's own discretion as to whether I would be informed that I came first in the shortlist is a very non-transparent procedure.