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- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Jul 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: I second Senator Ivana Bacik's amendment to the Order of Business. We mentioned the word "GRECO" and that goes over the public's heads. What is GRECO? I think it is worthwhile to state that GRECO is the Council of Europe's Group of States against Corruption. We know that everybody in this House today knows that GRECO has issued a yellow card to Ireland. The State is not formally replying...
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Jul 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: We did not even know what the amendments were.
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Jul 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: It is a fact. We did not know what the amendments were.
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Jul 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: It is in our hands.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: Does the Minister agree with them?
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: Civil servants
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: If the Minister is talking about 15 years as being the decontamination period, he should look at the lobbyist legislation and make it 15 years for politicians before they can become a lobbyist.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: If the Minister wants to set standards, then they should apply across everything, including politicians.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: Maybe we should go back and look at this standard. I find it hard to say to somebody they cannot apply for a particular job for 15 years. Will the Minister answer the direct question? Is the GRECO report in his possession? If so, has he read it?
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: The Minister said there are no earthquakes in it. There is a contradiction there.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: I did not make any allegations.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: I have not made any allegations against the Minister.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: I am not an alligator.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: The Minister just said he had not seen or read the report. However, he has told several Senators they will not be disappointed by it and that it is not ground-breaking. I am not sure whether he has read extracts or clear definitions.He is in the legal profession and may have given himself a get-out clause somewhere. Perhaps because of my working-class background, I have not phrased this in...
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: The vote on the Order of Business this morning was on our desire to see the report prior to the debate. That did not prohibit the Minister taking it to the Cabinet to allow it to be released here to Senators. On a note of real caution, the Minister is bringing the legislation through this House and has said clearly he has not read the report that came from GRECO. I am very disappointed...
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: It is.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: I ask that the Senators yield to me to allow me to ask a question. Under Standing Orders, it is allowed. The vote today was-----
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: I will go back to Senator Craughwell then. He still has the floor.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: I think it is a critical question to be asked at this stage.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: All Senators had a reasonable expectation that some of the Minister's amendments would have been influenced by the GRECO report. We now know that the Minister has not received the report. Therefore, he has not read it and has not been influenced by it. I think that is quite worrying. I ask the Senators who took a particular position when the House voted on this matter earlier today to...