Gerard Craughwell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

Following on from what Senator McDowell said, can anyone imagine a private organisation appointing a chief financial officer and consulting all the chief financial officers in town, but not the board of directors of the company or anybody on the management side? Here we have a situation where anybody can be consulted other than those who ultimately pay the judge, and that is the Government. What we are trying to do here is to drive a wedge between the powers of the State and, in doing so, we are excluding the very people who want to appoint the judge in question.We take no advice whatsoever from it and we go ahead and we come back with three names that Government ultimately may find do not fit the criteria it had in mind. I find it very strange.