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- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)
David Norris: There is no doubt about that.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)
David Norris: I could not hear the Chair. He was mumbling.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)
David Norris: I would not bank on that.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)
David Norris: Hear, hear. I would like to third it. I strongly agree with my colleague and friend, Senator McDowell, that it seems absurd that a group of people, including the Chief Justice, should be forced to apply to this external group composed of persons, experts and consultants.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)
David Norris: We are not at all. The Minister must listen more intently.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)
David Norris: I am speaking now.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)
David Norris: I am not doing anything to the Chair.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)
David Norris: Should this process apply to these people? They have to apply to the persons, consultants and experts and all the rest of the blather despite the fact that they are ex officiodeemed to be suitable to sit on the Supreme Court. If they are suitable in one instance, how can they not be suitable? Why do they have to do this? This is one of the things wrong with this wonderful country, we are...
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)
David Norris: The Chair is quite right. I will return to the section and address particularly Senator McDowell's amendment. It reintroduces the Government's original section and extends the senior judicial appointment process-----
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)
David Norris: Yes, there is.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)
David Norris: I am sorry, it is in section 44, which is consequential. They are all related.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)
David Norris: Section 37 applies directly to section 44. Section 44 is explicitly mentioned in the one sentence that deals with this matter. I think I am perfectly entitled to talk about section 44.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)
David Norris: We have driven them out. They are not my guests.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)
David Norris: Section 37 explicitly states: "Nothing in this chapter or chapter 2 shall be construed as being applicable to a judicial office to which section 44 applies." Section 44 is bang in the middle of it. It is directly germane, as is Senator McDowell's amendment and he has already spoken about his amendment because it is directly relevant.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)
David Norris: There is an amendment on section 44 and we were talking about section 44.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)
David Norris: I beg your pardon.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)
David Norris: It is not section 34 but section 44. I wonder why the Chair takes this aggressive attitude towards me because he allowed Senator McDowell to expatiate-----
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)
David Norris: He is passive aggressive.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)
David Norris: It is not relevant, but section 44 is relevant. I want to say that this amendment codifies a procedure that this Government has adopted in recent senior court appointments and it follows that this process should continue on a statutory basis. That is directly relevant. Actually, now when I look at the situation in its global context, I get a feeling that we are really whistling in the wind...
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)
David Norris: It does matter.