Stormont minister Conor Murphy is hoping to land a seat on the industrial and commercial panel.

Fine Gael TD Alan Farrell wrote to the Oireachtas Commission, the group that oversees the workings of Leinster House, saying the “eye-watering difference” was “inherently unfair at best and scandalous at worst”.

Mr Farrell replaces Alan Dillon, who was promoted to Minister of State at the Department of Housing