Jerry Buttimer (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Minister might reply, acknowledging the application. Suppose the Minister wrote that he understood the applicant's qualifications for the job and looked forward to a conversation with him. A further exchange of correspondence might follow.

John B. Keane is right in saying that in the world inhabited by some people in his books, letters and correspondence, appointments were made on a wink and a nod. I have never been in Government, so I do not know, but I have read John B. Keane's letter to a TD.

I was a member of a school community that changed its appointment process. Was Senator Gallagher a teacher at the time?