Michael McDowell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I fully appreciate what the Minister has just said but we need more clarity. The Minister gets a list of three names and goes to the leaders of the coalition parties in Government. Are they prohibited from asking any questions of anybody else as to which of the three is the better or more suitable candidate? I do not think it is in the Bill. This is not a fanciful thought. If I was the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, and the names of three barristers or solicitors appeared in my hands would I be permitted to ask others for their opinion of the three?