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- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (3 Mar 2009)
David Norris: He has done so.
- Seanad: Legal Services Ombudsman Bill 2008: Committee and Remaining Stages (3 Mar 2009)
David Norris: I wish to deal with a point I raised previously about this type of legislation, that is, definitions. Subsection (6) states: "A person ceases to hold the office of Legal Services Ombudsman when the person â (a) is nominated as a member of Seanad Ãireann,". There is confusion in this provision. The university Senators, for example, must be nominated by ten graduates in good standing....
- Seanad: Legal Services Ombudsman Bill 2008: Committee and Remaining Stages (3 Mar 2009)
David Norris: If I may ask the Minister of Stateââ
- Seanad: Legal Services Ombudsman Bill 2008: Committee and Remaining Stages (3 Mar 2009)
David Norris: I mentioned the issue of nomination, which can cover nomination to stand as a candidate. Many people are nominated for positions and not all are chosen. At the previous Seanad election in Trinity College there were about 14 candidates but only three of us were successful. Thus, 11 were not successful, although there may not have been quite as many as that. What about people who are...
- Seanad: Legal Services Ombudsman Bill 2008: Committee and Remaining Stages (3 Mar 2009)
David Norris: I will not be tedious on this matter. However, it is instructive that the Minister of State himself instinctively used the word "appointed". I am sure if he were prosecuting a case in court he would make hay with that fact. The current wording is perhaps a coyness on the part of Government which does not like to admit too openly that it appoints people to the Seanad. Linguistically,...
- Seanad: Legal Services Ombudsman Bill 2008: Committee and Remaining Stages (3 Mar 2009)
David Norris: Section 9 confers a fairly general power in terms of function which is to receive and investigate complaints. That is terribly wide. The bodies named are the Bar Council and the Law Society and it is implicit in this that complaints may not be entertained if they are against the Judiciary. Can the Minister of State tell me whether this is the case? Can the legal ombudsman entertain a...
- Seanad: Legal Services Ombudsman Bill 2008: Committee and Remaining Stages (3 Mar 2009)
David Norris: I am grateful for the Minister of State's reference to proposed legislation in regard to judges. I accept absolutely the separation of powers between the Oireachtas and the Judiciary. However, Senator O'Donovan is correct that while judges must be independent that does not mean they are infallible. I do not believe in infallibility, even for the particular gentleman who spends much of his...
- Seanad: Legal Services Ombudsman Bill 2008: Committee and Remaining Stages (3 Mar 2009)
David Norris: A very good one. I do not despise trade: I have relatives who are in trade.
- Seanad: Legal Services Ombudsman Bill 2008: Committee and Remaining Stages (3 Mar 2009)
David Norris: I forgot to say I am glad to see subsection 1(c) about the admission policies because I raised a matter on the Adjournment here some years ago concerning a young man, Frank McGowan, who had been disbarred from admission to the courses in the Incorporated Law Society. I am not sure whether there was subsequently a legal case but I do not think there was. It was ultimately resolved. My...
- Seanad: Legal Services Ombudsman Bill 2008: Committee and Remaining Stages (3 Mar 2009)
David Norris: That is regrettable. If I was a really unscrupulous politician, which I hope I am not, I would catapult myself in on top of advice that my distinguished colleague Senator Bacik whispered to me and pretend that it was my own wisdom. She may feel entitled to put it on the record herself. I will refrain from so doing because I disdain those practices which are rampant in this House.
- Seanad: Legal Services Ombudsman Bill 2008: Committee and Remaining Stages (3 Mar 2009)
David Norris: Profession.
- Seanad: Legal Services Ombudsman Bill 2008: Committee and Remaining Stages (3 Mar 2009)
David Norris: And a pinkie-communist-socialist.
- Seanad: Legal Services Ombudsman Bill 2008: Committee and Remaining Stages (3 Mar 2009)
David Norris: Huh.
- Seanad: Legal Services Ombudsman Bill 2008: Committee and Remaining Stages (3 Mar 2009)
David Norris: I apologise; that is spelled "H-U-H".
- Seanad: Legal Services Ombudsman Bill 2008: Committee and Remaining Stages (3 Mar 2009)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Legal Services Ombudsman Bill 2008: Committee and Remaining Stages (3 Mar 2009)
David Norris: I compliment the Minister of State and his advisers who have played a role in this matter. Of course, I am not for a second suggesting that the Minister of State relies extensively on the advisers, but they were a good team. The Minister of State showed himself to be in full command of this Bill. I was a bit surprised when I discovered that no amendments had been tabled to the Bill because...
- Seanad: Legal Services Ombudsman Bill 2008: Committee and Remaining Stages (3 Mar 2009)
David Norris: The Constitution is badly drafted.
- Seanad: Registration Fees (3 Mar 2009)
David Norris: I raise this matter of concern to pharmacy students and, in particular, the sophister students. I raised an issue regarding their situation in the previous session. It concerns the increase of their registration fee to â¬1,500. The fee seems extraordinarily high and the deadline for payment is also rather harsh. I anticipate the Minister of State's response. He will start by saying that...
- Seanad: Registration Fees (3 Mar 2009)
David Norris: I understand the Minister of State is just reading a script. However, will he return to the Minister for Health and Children with the requests I made? It is an embarrassment to seek â¬3 million for a bit of administration. No teaching is being done and I am perfectly morally certain there is much double-jobbing going on there. The people administering this are otherwise occupied and are...
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Mar 2009)
David Norris: Hear, hear.