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- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2019)
Gerry Horkan: He expressed a view and he is entitled to do that.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2019)
Gerry Horkan: Go ahead.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2019)
Gerry Horkan: Yes. The Senator should go ahead.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2019)
Gerry Horkan: I am listening to the Senator.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2019)
Gerry Horkan: The Senator has made very good points. Does anybody else want to come in? Senators McDowell and Conway have indicated.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2019)
Gerry Horkan: In the interests of facilitating debate and trying to be helpful to all Members of the House and that includes the Government as much as anybody else, I will make the ruling, as Acting Chair, that amendment No. 13 is being decoupled from the rest of the grouping. We can revisit the grouping-----
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2019)
Gerry Horkan: It is not a matter for the House, it is a matter for me. I am saying that, in the interests of facilitating-----
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2019)
Gerry Horkan: We could discuss whether we should group these amendments for the next half hour or hour and we could have dealt with amendment No. 13 in the meantime. I rule that we deal with amendment No. 13 separately from the rest of the group. We will deal with whether amendments Nos. 49 to 53, inclusive, and amendment No. 59 should be grouped when we reach them. We will now discuss amendment No. 13....
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2019)
Gerry Horkan: Is there a seconder for the amendment?
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Dec 2019)
Gerry Horkan: I observed some of the Order of Business when it was outlined and I saw Senator McDowell's response. I came in when Senator Marie-Louise O'Donnell was discussing it, but unlike a lot of days I will actually speak about the Order of Business. I cannot say anything further than what has already been said by Senators McDowell and O'Donnell, and by many others, other than to say we have had a...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Dec 2019)
Gerry Horkan: We got through four in one and a half hours. At this stage we have done 14 of the 78 amendments.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Dec 2019)
Gerry Horkan: We have had worthwhile debate. There are amendments that are worth debate, challenge and discussion. It is very unfortunate that the Government and the Leader have been put in a position where the Leader is being forced - effectively - to put this question. It is not something he does very often-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Dec 2019)
Gerry Horkan: I want it on record that I am not okay or comfortable with the guillotine being pushed and I will certainly oppose it. I do not know if any Member has already raised my next point. A number of people have been attacked while cycling along the Grand Canal-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Dec 2019)
Gerry Horkan: -----at what are known as "kissing gates", which are designed to slow cyclists down. They have now become, effectively, chicanes where the cyclist must slow down or stop, or perhaps get off his or her bike. I have not used that stretch of the canal but this is a very serious issue. I am aware of one person who was attacked recently and hit with an iron bar as he was going through the gate....
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Dec 2019)
Gerry Horkan: It is important that we design them appropriately and iron out these kinds of problems and do not allow these facilities to be used in such a way. I do not like to raise what are usually local authority matters, but it is an important issue and it should be raised.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (11 Dec 2019)
Gerry Horkan: Do the Senators wish to press the amendment?
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (11 Dec 2019)
Gerry Horkan: Is the amendment being withdrawn?
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (11 Dec 2019)
Gerry Horkan: As amendment No. 15 has not been agreed, amendment No. 16 may be moved.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (11 Dec 2019)
Gerry Horkan: As amendments Nos. 17 to 20, inclusive, are related, and amendments Nos. 18 to 20, inclusive, are physical alternatives to amendment No. 17, amendments Nos. 17 to 20, inclusive, may be discussed together.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (11 Dec 2019)
Gerry Horkan: Is Senator McDowell pressing the amendment?