I’m all for questioning the ability, qualifications or usefulness of ministers but I disagree that he is more qualified for the post than McEntee. McEntee has been a junior minister for a long time has impressed everyone she’s worked with and as her role grew massively in importance in recent years and she grew with it. She is therefore far more qualified to be a full minister than O’Callaghan who is a politician a wet week. O’Callaghan might have been a barrister but that does not necessarily make him best qualified to be a minister for justice, what experience has he of running anything? McDowell was a barrister and minister for justice and make a hames of it.
Big Jim is one of the top Senior Counsel in the Law Library. I’d imagine he’s pulling in a 7 figure sum every year down there. It’s a real shock that he’s not parking that for a few years to serve as Junior Counsel to a Minister for Justice, nearly 20 years his junior, new to Cabinet and with no professional legal qualifications.
The guy is in politics a wet week and expects to jump the queue to a full ministry because he earned a lot of money as a junior counsel? He has nothing on his CV to suggest he’s capable of running a ministry. The person “20 years his junior” has far more relevant experience, what a silly and ageist comment. This flute is a decade behind McEntee in terms of relevant experience.
Has @glasagusban had anything to say about how Miss McEntee has used all her relevant experience in handling the appointment process to the Supreme Court?
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