Danny Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source

It is a fact that this Bill and the other Bill the Minister, Deputy Ross, has insisted on as his price for supporting the Government have held up the business of the country for the past number of months and are continuing to do so. There will be no account of the Minister, Deputy Ross, when this Bill is found to be wrong in the fullness of time but the Minister, Deputy Flanagan, is bringing the Bill forward. There is a money aspect to the Bill as well, which will cost the taxpayers more money to fund this change and set up a commission that will advise the Government as to who should be appointed to whatever judicial position is vacant and the Government may or may not go with that. In spite of its recommendations, which may cost €1 million a year, we could find that the elected Minister or the Government of the day will not go with whoever the commission advises should be put on the Bench. I could think of other things the money would be better spent on such as the people who must travel to Belfast on a weekly basis to get their eyesight back.

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