Michael McDowell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

When this section was presented to this House it was part of the dog's dinner that the Attorney General referred to because it was proposed in the original form in which it came to this House that where somebody who was appointed to judicial office had not been recommended by the commission, the notice of appointment would also include in Iris Oifigiúila reasoned explanation of the decision of the Government not to nominate a candidate recommended by the commission. The Government was to justify and write a little essay in Iris Oifigiúilsaying why it had not chosen from the shortlist put up by the commission. That would have been grotesque because-----