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Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Clare Daly: The Minister states we should not depart from the current legislative position. The reason we have spent weeks and months adjudicating on this Bill is that the present situation needs to be altered. There is no constitutional impediment. The judicial appointments review committee, comprising judges and chaired by Mrs. Justice Susan Denham recommended that the Judicial Appointments Advisory...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Clare Daly: My amendment No. 151 is trying to do the same thing as Deputy Wallace's. We are trying to plug the holes in the Bill. As currently constituted, the Government can bypass the recommendations of the commission and nominate whomever it likes. We are trying to stop that. I thought the whole idea behind the commission was the independence of judicial appointments. As currently structured, the...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Clare Daly: Exactly.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Clare Daly: This is unfortunate because this is the heart of the Bill and it is the eleventh hour of the Committee Stage. That is regrettable because this whole debate has been cloaked in that it is about wresting from the Government the power to make judicial appointments. We are supposed to be here to take that away from it and exercise more democratic accountability. That is how this Bill has been...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Clare Daly: This amendment was not actually discussed because Deputy Sherlock was not here.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Clare Daly: We skipped over the grouping that included amendments Nos. 127 and 128.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Clare Daly: I move amendment No. 139:In page 31, between lines 28 and 29, to insert the following:“(3) If the Commission cannot, in accordance with this Act, recommend to the Minister any names of persons to fill a judicial vacancy, it shall invite, through means of advertisement, the making of applications by persons to be considered for selection, that is for their being selected to be the...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Clare Daly: I believe the Minister has proven my point in some ways. He said that if a good person was out there who became available for Government but did not make him or herself known to the commission, then the Government could hand-pick that person. However, if a good person was out there, he or she could be nominated within the three months when the commission re-advertises. That person,...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Clare Daly: Deputy O’Callaghan is afraid that he will be speaking for the job.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Clare Daly: It may be that the outcome will not be the same. However, we are talking about transparency and procedures. The Minister used a scenario in which the board could not recommend anyone, the Government said all the recommendations were brutal but had a person in mind and appointed that person. What is wrong with informing the individual that the job would be re-advertised, he or she could...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Clare Daly: I move amendment No. 140:In page 31, to delete lines 29 to 40. This amendment proposes to remove the obligation on the commission to forward the names and the application packs to the Minister for review. It will allow instead for the position to be re-advertised.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Clare Daly: I move amendment No. 147:In page 32, to delete lines 11 to 14. This is the same matter and it removes the circumstances where the commission cannot agree to nominate anybody and it takes out its ability to send on the stuff to the Minister.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Clare Daly: I move amendment No. 149:In page 32, between lines 16 and 17, to insert the following:“ Appointment as Chief Justice, President of the Court of Appeal, and President of the High Court46. (1) Where—(a) the judicial office of Chief Justice, President of the Court of Appeal or President of the High Court stands vacant, or (b) the Minister reasonably apprehends that any of those...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Clare Daly: The legislation clearly indicates "the Minister shall convene a meeting of the following persons" - the Chief Justice, the chairperson and the Attorney General - and "those persons, so convened, shall be known as the Senior Judicial Appointments Advisory Committee". I am not clear on that. The Minister's role is still there, although the Minister has argued it is not. The question of...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Clare Daly: Okay.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Clare Daly: Yes.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Clare Daly: If we have everybody there, we will get through it a lot quicker. I do not think there is really any talking left.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Legal Cases (8 Feb 2018)

Clare Daly: 45. To ask the Minister for Health the reason his Department has not complied in full with the order for discovery made by the High Court in November 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6205/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccine Damage Compensation Scheme (8 Feb 2018)

Clare Daly: 86. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the progress of the programme for Government commitment to implement the recommendations of the vaccine damage steering group. [6206/18]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (8 Feb 2018)

Clare Daly: 109. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of recommendations the 2013 report of the working group on Lariam contained. [6584/18]