Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I accept the point made by Deputy Catherine Murphy that a judicial appointments commission should be progressed, and it will be progressed. However, the difference from the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill brought forward in the previous Dáil is that the Government thinks the proper approach to adopt is for the Chief Justice to chair the commission in terms of the appointment of judges in the future and recommendations that will go to the Government from the new judicial appointments commission. The Judicial Appointments Commission Bill did not get through the previous Oireachtas. It was in the other House for a considerable period.

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