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- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)
David Norris: Would I ever stray? Section 44 has been brought directly, as well as quite appropriately as the two sections reflect on each other, into the discussion by Senators McDowell and Bacik. I am just following their example. It is quite extraordinary that an appointments commission would deal with issues such as probity and all of these other matters. This, by and large, faceless commission,...
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)
David Norris: Will they be given the reasons?
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)
David Norris: That is not a satisfactory answer.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)
David Norris: I will paraphrase the late great writer, James Joyce. Am I inconsistent? Very well then, I am inconsistent. I can say that as an individual Member but I do not believe one should be allowed to say that about legislation.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)
David Norris: The Minister's reflections have been so interesting and I am really distressed that there is nobody in the seats opposite. There are only three Senators in the House. Can this be possible? We must call our colleagues to boot and have a quorum.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)
David Norris: We ought to wait for the Minister.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)
David Norris: Is he?
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)
David Norris: So he is.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)
David Norris: Clongowes.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)
David Norris: The High School.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)
David Norris: It is not just theoretically. There have been two.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)
David Norris: Yes, I have.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)
David Norris: Senator McDowell is too cruel.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)
David Norris: I thought he said he was in favour of it.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)
David Norris: Yes.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)
David Norris: It will be quite a brief comment. These people are consultants and this, that and the other, but we do not have any information as to their background qualifications, certainly not in any detail. I wonder what entitles them to say that somebody has not got competence, that they do not have probity, that they are unsuitable on the grounds of character and temperament or health. Are they...
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)
David Norris: Someone in a wheelchair might make a very good judge.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)
David Norris: Does Senator McDowell mean that one would have to undergo a medical test?
- 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.