Technocracy and the Taoiseach

Having established the fact that there is indeed a great government confidence crisis and ineffective model of government prohibits many times for the right decisions to be taken, let us now take a look and how to create a cabinet of experts to tackle this crisis. (Knowing that this system is quite complicated, allow me to split it into a number of posts that will be posted over the next couple of days).

In today's post we will look at how the cabinet of experts would be voted in and function.

The Taoiseach under the current system is elected by the majority in the Dáil. The TD who gains these votes becomes the Taoiseach and is untrusted to from the government. Each minister is, in fact, a TD and doesn't stop being a TD even after their appointment to the various department.
If we look at the technocracy model (government of experts) as proposed by Breakthrough we will see that the model is not remotely different. After the elections the Dáil majority coalition will be formed as a result of the talks between the party leaders. This Dáil majority then agrees on appointing an expert, an apolitical nominee, to become a Taoiseach and proposes this nomination to the Dáil. This model is, in fact, matching the model in work right now. It ensures that the will of the people, as proclaimed in the elections, is listened to and respect by letting the Dáil majority to pass the given candidate for the Taoiseach. The only difference so far is that the Taoiseach nominee is an apolitical figure, one that does not have any ties to any party but rather is an expert.
Now we come to the most important thing about this model, the definition of 'an expert'. An expert is a person who has an expertise in a specific field and experience with interaction in this field to which they are nominated. Alongside that the expert needs to have a proven track record in that field and show that he has been successful. For example if we take Colm McCarthy as an expert on finance, or Brian Mooney as an expert on education (please take these two names with a grain of salt, though, they are just examples thrown in to illustrate the point).
Seeing that we now know what an expert is, we can proceed with the explanation of the establishing of the cabinet of experts. After the Taoiseach nominee gains the approval of the Dáil he/she then most be approved off by the president (more on presidential powers under technocracy in further posts).
After these conditions are met the new Taoiseach is faced with the task of picking his cabinet. How this process should work, shall be discussed in the post tomorrow. Please look forward to it.