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Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (20 Jun 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: Yes.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (20 Jun 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: I will do that. Senator Noone made a telling contribution on the issue of illegal dumping. As I said, I am happy to provide for a debate on the issue. Senator Ó Donnghaile raised the issue of access to RTÉ in the North in the context of the failure last week of Sky to transmit one of the championship matches, which is disappointing to say the least. I ask Senator Marie-Louise...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (20 Jun 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: Now, Senator McDowell, no contrary behaviour.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (20 Jun 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: What is wrong with black pudding?

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (20 Jun 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire go dtí an Teach. In welcoming the Minister, Deputy Flanagan, I reject Senator Bacik's assertion there is a grubby deal. It is anything but. Her own party was very happy to do a deal with Sinn Féin to get votes for the Seanad election on more than one occasion. To borrow a phrase - we are where we are. I am not quite sure if it is a plate of...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (20 Jun 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: President Obama could not even get an appointment over the line. Mr. Gorsuch was then appointed to the Supreme Court. If one looks at what happens in the context of the American Supreme Court, we want to avoid the situation here where people are afraid about what happens if a particular judge dies. We must avoid that situation. It is not about liberal or conservative, it is about merit...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (20 Jun 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: It is not necessarily about that.It is not about that per se.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (20 Jun 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: If some people got their way, we would have all the one type on the Bench. We should have a balance and the criteria for appointment, on merit, should include legal qualifications. That is the point I am making. Notwithstanding the amendments by the Minister, the Bill will change the manner in which judges are appointed. In creating the judicial appointments board, we will change the...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (20 Jun 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: I will finish on this but I did not realise I had only one minute left. I thought I had more.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (20 Jun 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: I go back to when the judicial appointments review committee was established in 2013. It said that the relative success of the administration of justice in Ireland was achieved in spite of rather than because of the appointments system. That was the process established prior to Deputy Ross becoming a Minister. That should raise questions for us. Senator Bacik referred also to the issue of...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (20 Jun 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: It is an extraordinary indictment that the ratio under the current system is 84:16.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (20 Jun 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: That is at a time when we have quotas in politics for candidates.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (20 Jun 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: There we go. Is it time we had quotas in respect of judges? I am just posing that rhetorical question.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (20 Jun 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: This a debate and I am only putting a question out there. The figures speak for themselves. I pose another question to Senator Clifford-Lee. We put supports in place in politics for women. I support those and I support women running for election. How do we put the same supports in place to change that imbalance in the legal-----

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (20 Jun 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: I am posing my question as part of a debate. That is what this is about.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (20 Jun 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: I did not realise my six minutes were up.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (20 Jun 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: Next Tuesday.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jun 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: The Order of Business is No. 1, motion re the joint sitting of Dáil Éireann and Seanad Éireann for exchange of views with Mr. Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission, to be taken on the conclusion of the Order of Business without debate; No. 2, motion regarding the position of the UK and Ireland in respect of the area of freedom, security and justice, annexed...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jun 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: I thank the 17 Members for their contributions to the Order of Business. We will have a debate later on the motion in respect of the 25th anniversary of decriminalisation of homosexuality, which is important. In advance of debating the motion, I appeal to the Sinn Féin Members not to table their amendment and that, instead, we have an agreed cross-party motion. It was put forward in...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jun 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: Senators Bacik, Mark Daly, Devine, Feighan, Gavan, Lawless, Reilly and Ruane raised the immigration policy of the United States Administration, which separates children from their parents as part of border controls. As Leader of this House, I thank all the Members for their contributions on this, although I single out Senator Lawless for his contribution. The policy is immoral, wrong and...