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- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Feb 2019)
Charles Flanagan: The amendment does not deal with the Chief Justice. I have to attract the Chair to the subject matter of the amendment, in fairness.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Feb 2019)
Charles Flanagan: The response was made. It is a deliberate attempt to-----
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Feb 2019)
Charles Flanagan: I have read the amendment.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Feb 2019)
Charles Flanagan: I have had the amendment in front of me for the past three weeks.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Feb 2019)
Charles Flanagan: And rightly so.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Feb 2019)
Charles Flanagan: Exactly.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Feb 2019)
Charles Flanagan: That is not intended in the Bill or the amendment.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Feb 2019)
Charles Flanagan: Eighteen months according to the Senator's colleague Senator Craughwell, with whom he has been engaged in intense discussions.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Feb 2019)
Charles Flanagan: That has no bearing on the commission.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Feb 2019)
Charles Flanagan: I am glad Senator McDowell has admitted that it has no bearing.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Feb 2019)
Charles Flanagan: I am not sure about that.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Feb 2019)
Charles Flanagan: Except in certain circumstances.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Feb 2019)
Charles Flanagan: There was an absence of process.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Feb 2019)
Charles Flanagan: I was going to make that point but I need no longer do so. Senator Craughwell's comparison and the contrast he drew is immaterial.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Feb 2019)
Charles Flanagan: Rightly so.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Feb 2019)
Charles Flanagan: The Senators are arguing among themselves now.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Feb 2019)
Charles Flanagan: It is also to ensure it is not challenged in the courts.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Feb 2019)
Charles Flanagan: I do not wish to give any further oxygen to the fanciful notion of cascading vacancies on a regular basis. Both Senators will have to accept that the language of the past hour has been dramatic, to put it politely. What they said would happen will not happen. I am concerned to ensure that the courts run smoothly and that there are no delays of any description. We originally had 18 months...
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Feb 2019)
Charles Flanagan: If Senator McDowell has his way, that will not be the case.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Feb 2019)
Charles Flanagan: Overly dramatising.