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Mon 07 Jul 2007FG and Labour question State jobs processOpposition spokesmen are questioning the transparency of the process under which more than 300 ministerial appointments to State boards and other public bodies are due to be made by the end of the year.Fine Gael justice spokesman Jim O'Keeffe believes nominees to the more important positions should appear before an Oireachtas committee and Labour's environment spokesman Eamon Gilmore claims most of those appointed are "Fianna Fáil insiders".