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- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2019)
Michael McDowell: Votáil.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2019)
Michael McDowell: I move amendment No. 96c:In page 32, between lines 17 and 18, to insert the following:“Vacancies in the Superior Courts49.(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, where the Government decides to advise the President to appoint any serving judge who is a member of any of the Superior Courts to any vacancy arising in those Courts, the Minister shall notify the Commission of...
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2019)
Michael McDowell: It was not.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2019)
Michael McDowell: Exactly. The Minister is indicating he will be accepting it so unless Sinn Féin has some objection, it will probably go through. I thank the Minister for accepting amendment No. 96c. That amendment is important. It came as a surprise to me that the Minister accepted it. It clearly-----
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2019)
Michael McDowell: This is relevant to amendment No. 97 as well. Amendment No. 96c is the new section 49, and it means the deletion we would effect through amendment No. 97 copperfastens very clearly the principle that the Government retains the right without any explanation of any kind whatever-----
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2019)
Michael McDowell: I am speaking on the combination of amendments Nos. 96c and 97.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2019)
Michael McDowell: I am expressing its importance but I did not realise it had already been discussed. I do not want to be disorderly.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2019)
Michael McDowell: I did not mean to be disorderly.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2019)
Michael McDowell: I will agree to the question but surely there are other amendments.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2019)
Michael McDowell: I move amendment No. 97a:In page 33, line 9, after "means" to insert "experience,". I do not agree to discussing the amendments together.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2019)
Michael McDowell: The purpose of the amendment is to insert in section 50-----
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2019)
Michael McDowell: They relate to different portions of sections.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2019)
Michael McDowell: I apologise and the Leas-Chathaoirleach is correct. The amendments make the same point.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2019)
Michael McDowell: The purpose of the amendment is to introduce the concept of experience to the requirement for requisite skills and attributes. The amendments would do this throughout section 50.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 May 2019)
Michael McDowell: This amendment is similar to several other amendments, both to this section and to others. We agreed on the last occasion that they could all be discussed together.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 May 2019)
Michael McDowell: Exactly, and-----
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 May 2019)
Michael McDowell: I think we have passed section 49.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 May 2019)
Michael McDowell: I am very grateful to the Minister. He took me by surprise on the last occasion by acceding to the amendment we tabled in respect of the superior courts. Rather than delay the House we did not debate it. This may have implications for other bits of the Bill which will have to be revisited on Report Stage. I will go no further than that. This amendment simply proposes to insert the word...
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 May 2019)
Michael McDowell: He is getting wonderful experience too.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 May 2019)
Michael McDowell: Determination is an attitude of mind and it can be good and bad. People can be determinedly wrong and determinedly right, and determinedly fair and determinedly unfair. Determination is seen, generally, as a positive attribute as opposed to someone being a vacillator or a hesitant person, although that only applies up to a point, because one has to listen to both sides of the argument and...