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- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Frances Fitzgerald: I am answering the question.
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Frances Fitzgerald: Would the Deputy allow me to finish the answer?
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Frances Fitzgerald: There is an absolutely clear process. They are then forwarded-----
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Frances Fitzgerald: -----to the Department of Justice and Equality for the attention of the Minister for Justice and Equality. That is the procedure that is followed in all cases where-----
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Frances Fitzgerald: -----the judge expresses an interest. There is a clear procedure.
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Frances Fitzgerald: I am surprised at the Deputy. He knows very well that it would be extraordinary to suggest, if that is what he is suggesting-----
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Frances Fitzgerald: -----that there was any pressure put on the President or-----
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Frances Fitzgerald: -----that he succumbed.
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Frances Fitzgerald: The Deputy is well experienced in government. He knows quite well that we do not come to the House and talk about contact between any particular officer in a Department with the President.
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Frances Fitzgerald: The Deputy knows very well-----
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Frances Fitzgerald: Let me answer. When a judge is about to be appointed there is always contact from the relevant Department, which is the Department of the Taoiseach-----
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Frances Fitzgerald: -----with the President. To suggest, first, that there is any inappropriate pressure put on the President-----
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Frances Fitzgerald: I am responding.
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Frances Fitzgerald: I already said that after the nomination of a judge contact is always made from the Department of the Taoiseach to make those arrangements. To suggest that there was any pressure-----
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Frances Fitzgerald: -----or to say that the President in any way would succumb to pressure is outrageous and absolutely untrue. It is inappropriate to suggest it.
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Frances Fitzgerald: Does the Deputy want me to answer?
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Frances Fitzgerald: The question shows a complete misunderstanding of the role of the role of the board-----
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Frances Fitzgerald: Of course it did not.
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Frances Fitzgerald: It is not its role to recommend judges to the Government.
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Frances Fitzgerald: Judges do not apply to the board.