Charles Flanagan (Laois, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I do not agree. The published statement may set out different selection procedures depending on the judicial office or, indeed, the procedures that may have been applied from time to time. It deals with the various offices, be it at District Court, Circuit Court or High Court level, and so on. Paragraph (b) covers a situation where the applicant may already have been a serving judge of the District Court, Circuit Court, etc. The statement setting out the selection procedures is something that may, on occasion, be done, depending on the commission. The published statement shall contain the statement in respect of the attributes and skills, in accordance with section 54. I do not see how the section can be called opaque, as Senator Norris described it.