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- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)
David Norris: No, it does not. We are talking into the future. They could sit down and say nothing at all. What would their influence be then? We are always being told about openness and transparency, but there is very little of that contained in the Minister's response. I have asked a series of questions, and I would like to hear the responses of the Minister.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)
David Norris: Did the Minister ask for an opinion?
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)
David Norris: How does the Minister know what these people might wish?
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)
David Norris: Anyway, letting the Government know who has applied is not the public arena.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)
David Norris: Nobody suggested that their names should be in the national newspapers.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)
David Norris: Excuse me, but I am being accused of saying that they should be in the national papers and I most definitely am not.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)
David Norris: I am beginning to feel a quorum coming on.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)
David Norris: The Minister is talking about the national newspapers. I never said anything about the national newspapers; I was talking about the Government.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)
David Norris: Since when is the Government of Ireland a national newspaper? It is not. I never mentioned national newspapers.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)
David Norris: The Minister has been abandoned. There is not a single Member from the Government side in the House.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)
David Norris: The Minister was rather disingenuous in his response to the subsection (7) element of Senator McDowell's amendment No. 90, which indicates that the committee shall "inform all members of the Superior Courts of the vacancy and invite any such member to express an interest in being appointed to the judicial office mentioned in subsection (2)". The Minister's response was to point to section...
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)
David Norris: It is relevant to what I am on the point of saying. Wait for it. I feel a quorum coming on.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)
David Norris: Under Standing Order 62(3)(b) I request that the division be taken again other than by electronic means.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)
David Norris: Under Standing Order 62(3)(b) I request that the division be taken again other than by electronic means.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)
David Norris: Under Standing Order 62(3)(b) I request that the division be taken again other than by electronic means.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)
David Norris: Under Standing Order 62(3)(b) I request that the division be taken again other than by electronic means.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)
David Norris: And a degree of competence.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)
David Norris: A dog would not eat it.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)
David Norris: It seems to me it is very plain where it states, "nothing in this Chapter shall be construed as being applicable to a judicial office to which section 44 applies". That rules out a whole series of the most senior judicial offices of the State. This is a grotesque inconsistency. With regard for section 44, I note the Minister gives himself the power to request the commission to seek...
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)
David Norris: Are you on section 36, a Leas-Chathaoirligh? That is exactly the section I am on. What a coincidence. I am so grateful to you for pointing out this unusual conjunction of events.