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Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: The Minister was not fair to me. A Chairman in the Seanad should allow a Senator to speak as long as he or she is not waffling. I was not waffling.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: The Leas-Chathaoirleach did not interrupt me. A Chairperson should enable a Senator to finish speaking without constant ministerial interruptions. That is the point I am making. I am not making a point about the Chair's interruptions. I was speaking for the first time on an important section in an important Bill.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Senator and I am glad to hear it. That is the conclusion of what I wanted to say. I would have said it all in a far shorter period and would not have called a quorum had I not been constantly interrupted.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I join Senator Humphreys on this. It is ridiculous for a Minister to interrupt constantly a speaking Senator who has not spoken on the section previously, and then attack the Chair for not allowing the debate to flow. It would have flowed a lot more smoothly if I had been allowed simply to make my points without interruption. I had a specific number of points and I was about to finish when...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: They were very short pieces. The document from which I read at length was our legal advice, which I am entitled to read into the record because it has not been dealt with here before. The points I raised were very short excerpts from the very lengthy responses of the Minister to the very lengthy points made by Senator McDowell on previous occasions when the Senator spoke to amendments and...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I still believe, and Senator McDowell will when he looks at the record, that we did not receive satisfactory responses to the very real concerns he, I and Senator Norris raised about section 27. We will be raising the points again on Report Stage.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I take issue with that. If they look at the record, any objective observer will see that I have spoken very little throughout this Bill.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I have made succinct and concise contributions.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I would like a withdrawal of the filibuster remark as it applied to me because I have not spoken at any length.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Minister for withdrawing it.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I wish to respond to the point the Minister made about the Attorney General. I support the presence of the Attorney General on the Judicial Appointments Advisory Board, JAAB, as on the commission. I am simply making a point related to some of the academic debate internationally, which I will not go into here, about whether judicial appointment processes should be entirely divorced from...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: That is a partial response. Unlike other Senators in this House I have never been an Attorney General or indeed in Cabinet, so I do not know whether that means that this has never happened or that it could happen. Perhaps it is something we will come back to. There are still points concerning section 27 that deserve fuller consideration.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: That is true.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: If I may, since I was named by the Minister-----

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I agree that the Minister riled me earlier.I stand over the statement that I certainly believe I was being interrupted far more frequently than other speakers and that it was unfair, given that I had not spoken on the section before, nor had I spoken very much on the two immediate sections, although I have been following the debate throughout. It is an important section and was an important...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: Let me follow up with one brief point about what the Chair has said. I certainly did not impugn the chairing of a previous debate-----

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: -----but it did appear to me and others that I was being interrupted much more frequently than other speakers. I intervened to point that out.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: Senator Norris is leading for our group today. I will contribute afterwards.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I second Senator Craughwell's proposed amendment to the Order of Business to the effect that the House discuss the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill until 5 p.m. and then adjourn. That was the time originally circulated to all Senators last week. On a serious note, many of us made arrangements - in my case, childcare arrangements - on foot of that 5 p.m. finish. I do not believe it is...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: ----- particularly when the Bill in question is not a matter of urgency. Those of us involved in politics - in my case, for what seems like a very long time - have no difficulty with sitting for long hours and sitting late-----