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- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)
David Norris: Pipe down.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)
David Norris: If not, the Bill is defective.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 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) (21 Nov 2018)
David Norris: Chapter 2 of Part 6 states: "In this Chapter 'legal academic' means a legal academic within the meaning of section 45A" and so on. We have quite a lengthy section in section 33 dealing with the definition of a legal academic and so on. I am not sure why it is necessary to rehearse it at this point because it seems to me a legal academic has already been satisfactorily defined in the...
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)
David Norris: Intermittently listening.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)
David Norris: It is not my true life but it is a crucially important thing.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)
David Norris: I am very gender balanced.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)
David Norris: I doubt it.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)
David Norris: Impeccable.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)
David Norris: I would like to address one point, through the Chair, concerning Senator McDowell's amendment No. 90.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)
David Norris: I beg the Cathaoirleach's pardon.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)
David Norris: Yes, through the Chair.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)
David Norris: I do not think so. When the Cathaoirleach hears my question he will understand why.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)
David Norris: Yes, I mentioned the business about a request.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)
David Norris: That is exactly point I was making. One cannot simply use the word "request" because, grammatically, one must request something. Senator McDowell has now made the change.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)
David Norris: Grammar is crucial, Minister.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)
David Norris: It is not a typographical error; it is the omission of an entire phrase.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)
David Norris: Can the Minister suggest a more appropriate word?
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)
David Norris: I support amendment No. 78. The objective is to narrow the focus and scope of the Bill at this point and, in the case of an appointment of an ordinary member of the High Court, to ensure the person has an appropriate knowledge of the decisions and "an appropriate knowledge and appropriate experience of the practice and procedure, of the High Court". Curiously, the Bill refers to an...
- Seanad: Irish Nationality and Citizenship (Naturalisation of Minors Born in Ireland) Bill 2018: Second Stage (21 Nov 2018)
David Norris: Hear, hear.