Gerard Craughwell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

Following on from my colleague's contribution, assuming we find questions, those questions would have to have a marking scheme associated with them in order to be able to list the best answers from the worst answers. I find the whole thing unbelievable at this stage. Somebody will have to draft the questions and, as Senator McDowell said, what questions will we ask and how do we decide? Senator McDowell adverted to the judge who gets through a lot of case work very quickly versus the judge who takes a lot of time over cases and reserves judgment quite a lot. At the end of the day is one less productive than the other? Are we measuring them by the speed at which they can drive cases through the courts? Finding questions that would not be biased in some way is going to be extremely difficult. From what I can see, having found the questions, finding a marking scheme that allows one to mark the responses to those questions in order to prioritise people would become a total and utter nonsense. I am very interested to hear the answers to Senator McDowell's questions.