Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 17 January 2018

Select Committee on Justice and Equality

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed)

10:20 am

Photo of Clare DalyClare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I honestly see this as a practical issue. We are all very clear that the view of this committee is that the relevant committees will not work and Report Stage will not change this, but that we are very open to looking at how, in a different format, the presidents of the two courts can be given a role on the commission. I agree we should make the decision today in order to advance the issue. If we do not, we will be left with a Bill that is largely unworkable and will be very difficult to reform at a later stage when we have to take out all of these bits to take on board the fact we do not agree with the committees. We should just decide that now, and all of us should engage seriously on how we get a role for the other two presidents.

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