Michael McDowell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I presume that is for the purpose of ensuring that the interviews are more or less equal for every applicant and that the board did not ask somebody about their experience in the GAA when the other person was down as the head of their local bridge club. I presume it is to ensure they cannot be asked questions which are unfair.

However, we are fairly clear that one cannot ask a candidate how they would decide cases or if they are generally pro-plaintiff or pro-defendant in insurance matters. One could not ask them a broad question of ideology as to whether property rights are more important than social and economic rights.