Michael McDowell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

Such a thing would happen. Let us not cod ourselves. If people ask others for advice as to which of the three should be appointed or what are the qualities of the three as far as the Government is concerned, such issues would involve who is liberal and who is conservative. If they are free to make those inquiries this will leak like a sieve. There is no point in codding ourselves that that will not happen. In what I call the Shane Ross Bill, I thought there was some prohibition on any leakages of this kind but I do not see it here.