Michael McDowell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

-----was party to a process which has produced excellent appointments at every level of the Irish Judiciary. There have been 45 such appointments since he took office, and there has been no controversy whatsoever in regard to any of them. Unless the Minister, Deputy Ross, is suggesting that he is personally keeping Fine Gael right on these issues by his influence at the Cabinet table, which I regard as a ludicrous proposition, the only logical conclusion is that his charge of cronyism is wholly false and baseless.