Michael McDowell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

That is a point that Senator Mullen can make himself. Why was paragraph (d) cooked up? Who sat down and thought that this possible loophole had not been sealed off, that somebody with judicial experience abroad might crawl through a crack onto this commission at some stage, greatly to the detriment of the theory of the Minister, Deputy Ross, that this kind of person is never to be trusted because of his or her experience to behave in other than a cronyish way?