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Formation of Government Committees

GoneShootin · 2011-02-25 00:03:44

I was wondering how Gov Committees are actually formed? I know that there is usually a proportional balance so that members are pieced together across the political spectrum, but how do individual members find their way to the committees. For example how did Jackie Healy Rae become Chair of the JC on Social Affairs, or…

25-02-2011 12:03am

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GoneShootin

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I was wondering how Gov Committees are actually formed? I know that there is usually a proportional balance so that members are pieced together across the political spectrum, but how do individual members find their way to the committees. For example how did Jackie Healy Rae become Chair of the JC on Social Affairs, or only the single Green getting on the JC on Climate Change?

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#2 25-02-2011 4:36pm

Riskymove

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Chairs of committees are appointed by the Govt

Bertie gave Jackie that nice little earner

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#3 25-02-2011 7:17pm

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Doesn't explain HOW they picked though. And, who then picks for other members?

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#4 26-02-2011 2:31am

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its one for everybody in the audience only about 10 out of the 226 in the oireachtas don't get a position and then it's people like mcdaid

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#5 27-02-2011 9:33pm

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According to Bertie: "I might have appointed somebody (to a state board), but I appointed them because they were friends, not because of anything they had given me."

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