I raise the matter of the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Deputy Ryan, appointing two of his pals to the Climate Change Advisory Council. I remember when the Zappone scandal happened that the Minister said lessons needed to be learned from this and we needed to make sure it does not ever happen again. An Oireachtas committee recommended that appointments to the council go through an open process. The Government collectively rejected that and now we know why. The Taoiseach let Fine Gael walk all over him with the Zapponegate scandal. Now, it appears he does not have any control over his Green Party Ministers. The Minister, Deputy Ryan, is a Minister in the Taoiseach's Government. Is the Taoiseach going to keep turning a blind eye to that? Is he happy that the Fianna Fáil-Fine Gael culture has now rubbed off on the Green Party when it comes to giving plum positions to political friends or is it that he is so desperate to be Taoiseach that anything goes in his Government and he has lost control of it? Which is it?

I will tell the Deputy which it is. Look at those two appointments and contrast them with the appointments the Deputy’s party has made.

He is not telling us this again.

Just look at it. Dr. Cara Augustenborg has been appointed among four new members. She is an environmental scientist, a senior fellow in environmental policy at University College Dublin and possesses-----

No.

It is not just an old pal. Someone with substance in the area has been appointed in terms of-----

There was no open process.

She has a PhD in environmental science and engineering from the University of California. I could go on.

There is no transparency in the process.

Order, please.

Dr. Morgan Bazilian is a director of the Payne Institute and professor of public policy at the Colorado School of Mines.

The Taoiseach would turn a blind eye to anything.

He has two master's degrees and a PhD in areas related to energy systems and markets.

Where is the transparency? Where is the process?

Unlike, of course, Jarlath Kearney, the former Sinn Féin special adviser who is on the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland. I do not know the expertise.

Where is the open process? It is the same old same old.

There is Joe O'Donnell, a Sinn Féin donor and former councillor who is on the Maze/Long Kesh Development Corporation.

The Taoiseach would turn a blind eye to anything in his desperation.

I could go on. The contrast is that there is expertise behind these appointments and they went through the proper format.

No, they did not. There was no open process.

Yes, they did. They were appointed by the Government. They did indeed.

There was no open process.

Could we have order from Members, please?

The contrast is stark between the how the Deputy’s party approaches it and how this Government approaches these particular appointments.