Under the new IRB pre-selection process, 90% of applicants for an IRB position are rejected and are not referred to me by the selection committee. This means that only 10% of the applicants are referred to me. Since becoming minister, I have recommended to Cabinet the appointment or the renewal of 70 IRB members.
According to the opposition's research, I know that 4 or 5 of these 90 IRB members had ties to my political party. This means that over 90% of IRB appointments had no ties to my party.