Results 14,801-14,820 of 21,096 for speaker:Charles Flanagan
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Jan 2019)
Charles Flanagan: Which section is that? Is it section 49?
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Jan 2019)
Charles Flanagan: No, I am merely asking the Senator which section he is referring to.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Jan 2019)
Charles Flanagan: I am asking which section the Senator is referring to.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Jan 2019)
Charles Flanagan: To what section is the Senator referring?
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Jan 2019)
Charles Flanagan: I do not have anything to say on amendment No. 85b because it is a repetition of amendment No. 85a, which I opposed. I will also oppose amendment No. 85b and I ask that the question be put.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Jan 2019)
Charles Flanagan: I am not sure that is the case. I am not sure that the Minister, Deputy Ross, referred to recent appointments made by this Government.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Jan 2019)
Charles Flanagan: I strongly reject that.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Jan 2019)
Charles Flanagan: I am pleased the Senator said that.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Jan 2019)
Charles Flanagan: I never made such a suggestion.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Jan 2019)
Charles Flanagan: For clarification, I do not take issue with that.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Jan 2019)
Charles Flanagan: The Senator is the one who introduced this aspect to the debate.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Jan 2019)
Charles Flanagan: The Senator is throwing hoops around his own comments.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Jan 2019)
Charles Flanagan: It is very close.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Jan 2019)
Charles Flanagan: Senator McDowell has jumped through hoops here for the past hour and eventually he comes up with the profound statement that he does not think the members of the Government are idiots.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Jan 2019)
Charles Flanagan: On the basis that the amendments are withdrawn, no.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Jan 2019)
Charles Flanagan: I listened closely to what the Senator said. Having regard to the fact that she is withdrawing the amendment, I would be happy to engage further but I would prefer a situation in which the Government is free to exercise its constitutional prerogative on the issue. A Government will receive names in a certain order and I think this will result in an appropriate level of conversation and...
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Jan 2019)
Charles Flanagan: Amendments Nos. 86aand 86bare twins. I am not satisfied, nor have I been convinced, that the deletion of section 40(3) improves the situation in any way. I remind Senators that the subsection was included by way of ministerial amendment on Report Stage in the Dáil. It was brought forward to reflect a measure of concern on the matter of the constitutional function, as has been...
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Jan 2019)
Charles Flanagan: -----notwithstanding a very large degree of repetition not only this evening but over the past 74 or 75 hours of this debate. I do not want to minimise any of these concerns. They are, in short, the constraints on what an Attorney General might say or do and the concerns about what the Government may be told or knows, or is not told, in certain circumstances, or what it may not know, given...
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Jan 2019)
Charles Flanagan: Let me be clear. I rose earlier in response to the Leas-Chathaoirleach's invitation in order to be helpful. What has happened now is that Senator McDowell has gone far beyond what I said. I recognised that there are concerns and listened to what Senators outlined as their concerns. I am reflecting on these. I have not stated that there is a problem. I have not stated that I share...
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Jan 2019)
Charles Flanagan: I will grant one point to Senator McDowell. This is the first occasion upon which I have acknowledged the existence of the concerns which he has repeatedly conveyed on the role, function and status of the Attorney General. I have listened over months to his concerns. I acknowledge that and I am reflecting in order to see if I can in some way move matters forward with a view towards...