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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2019)

Michael McDowell: Are the registers in Cork the same as the new registers in Dublin, that is, alphabetical rather than by numbers on streets? They are impossible to use.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2019)

Michael McDowell: By number.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2019)

Michael McDowell: No. I mean in the estates.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2019)

Michael McDowell: In Dublin, they are done alphabetically.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2019)

Michael McDowell: It is crazy. They cannot be used any more.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2019)

Michael McDowell: I cannot use them any more. They are useless.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 May 2019)

Michael McDowell: The section is not agreed to.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 May 2019)

Michael McDowell: Yes.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 May 2019)

Michael McDowell: Vótáil.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 May 2019)

Michael McDowell: I move amendment No. 97ca:In page 33, between lines 20 and 21, to insert the following: “51. (1) The Minister may, in respect of any vacancy in the District Court, the Circuit Court and the High Court, at the time of making a request to the Commission in accordance with section 40, direct the Commission to have regard to a specified class of business in a court to which it is...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 May 2019)

Michael McDowell: Yes, it should be "with which".

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 May 2019)

Michael McDowell: Subsection (2) states: "The Commission shall have regard to any direction made by the Minister under this section in discharging its functions in respect of any appointment in respect of which the direction applies." Subsection (3) states: "The Minister may from time to time consult with the Presidents of the Court of Appeal, the High Court, the Circuit Court and the District Court in...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 May 2019)

Michael McDowell: On a point of order, Senator Norris pointed out that in the fourth line of the amendment, the word "to" should be "with". I ask the House's leave to amend the amendment to make it grammatical.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 May 2019)

Michael McDowell: The knee-jerk reaction of the Minister is regrettable. It is nothing to do with the independence of a body that it should receive a direction which it should take into account. The phraseology of the amendment does not trench on the independence of the commission at all. If we go back to the section that we have just approved, section 50, considering that we have been told that experience...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 May 2019)

Michael McDowell: No, it states: "that it is reasonably anticipated a particular appointee to such office would deal with."

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 May 2019)

Michael McDowell: That is a different matter. I was taking up the phraseology of the draftsman, who I will not criticise in this respect. It is already part of the Minister's scheme that a particular appointee will be appointed or recommended for appointment on the basis that he or she may be carrying out a different class of business in the court to which he or she is appointed. That is already there. It...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 May 2019)

Michael McDowell: Probably.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 May 2019)

Michael McDowell: I did not attend Senator Norris’s lectures. I was one of those who was left outside trying to get in because of the crowds.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 May 2019)

Michael McDowell: Section 50(2)(b) states:The power to prepare a statement of requisite skills and attributes under this Part [which is a power for the commission’s procedures committee to do some drafting on] includes a power to prepare different statements of requisite skills and attributes by reference to—b) in the case of judicial offices in the same court, different classes of business in...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 May 2019)

Michael McDowell: Ignoring that for a second, who reasonably anticipates this? How are the appointees for that job going to know when they apply for a vacancy in the High Court, say, that it is looking for an intellectual property lawyer rather than somebody to preside over murder trials in the Central Criminal Court? How is this to be determined? This is a genuine lacuna. It is a mistake in the Bill that...