Michael McDowell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

With respect, that is not what the section states. Clearly, if the person is recommended, he or she is on the short-list of three. The section states that the Government is to be told the result of the interview with each of the three people. If the Minister of State is going to say that this just means they are on the list in the first place, what is the purpose of the paragraph at all? If they are on a short list, they have been recommended - we know that. If the Government is entitled to see, before it makes its choice, the results of interviews carried out by each of the successfully short-listed people, what is it to be told under paragraph (c)? Is it how they performed at interview or what the interview was about?