Gerard Craughwell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

As Senator McDowell pointed out, take the case of a judge, a person from a lower court and someone who had not had a judicial appointment all in the same pool. Apart from anything else, say a High Court judge failed to get appointed to the Court of Appeal and somebody from a lower court was appointed instead, then there would be reputational damage to the High Court judge. I am a little confused as to the legality of having different selection procedures for the same position. Would that section find itself in front of the very people we are trying to appoint?