From the Irish Times:

“All that happened yesterday was the first stage of a process which has quite some distance to go yet’’

….Mr Gilmore insisted that the Department of Finance secretary general had been nominated because he fitted the requirements of the post. It was the most appropriate appointment, he said.

…Mr Gilmore said the civil service was independent and he respected it. He said he understood that there had, by and large, been a positive reaction to Mr Cardiff at the budgetary committee hearing.

 

Except for the fact that they rejected him.

Cardiff Still Government’s Nomination To European Court (Irish Times)

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