Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

If I was to bring forward a name now obviously the list of eligible judges or the list of those who applied is set out as well and available for people to see but obviously there is Cabinet confidentiality. That applies in the same way but they are not going to be published prior to Cabinet. They are not going to be made available. As I said we actually had in the Bill that every person would be told and, on further engagement with the Judiciary and with others, it was amended so that if a person asked and wanted to know he or she could be told. If such people did not, and it is their right if they do not want to be informed whether they are on it, they would not be given that information.