Sean Barrett (Independent)

I move amendment No. 16:

In page 19, subsection (2), line 29, to delete paragraph (i).

I raise this matter in the presence of two distinguished graduates of the Trinity College law schools, Senators Byrne and Bacik. The Minister answers to the Comptroller and Auditor General, who is protected under the Constitution. Is the Comptroller and Auditor General equivalent in law to judges with whom the Minister must deal with separately? That is the nature of my query to the Minister and our lawyer colleagues present.