Clause 2 - Certification commissioner
Northern Ireland (Offences) Bill
9:15 am
Tobias Ellwood (Bournemouth East, Conservative)
Following on from the question from the hon. Member for North Down (Lady Hermon), the commissioner will be pivotal in ensuring that the Bill works, but there are huge concerns about the recruitment criteria. Has the Minister undertaken any soundings about the people he is likely to recruit to see whether anybody would be interested in the job? I suspect that few will come forward. Is there an interest in taking the job up?