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- Seanad: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Second Stage (20 Nov 2018)
David Norris: The Title could be changed.
- Seanad: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Second Stage (20 Nov 2018)
David Norris: I welcome the Minister and the Bill. I am 74 years old, so I grew up in a different age.Circumstances change very rapidly nowadays. When I was younger and started working, we had an expectation of a lifetime job and a pension at the end. That is all gone now. We have the casualisation of work and we have disposable workers. Everywhere I look in my own university, people are on short-term...
- Seanad: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Second Stage (20 Nov 2018)
David Norris: How many have I had?
- Seanad: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Second Stage (20 Nov 2018)
David Norris: All right.
- Seanad: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Second Stage (20 Nov 2018)
David Norris: Section 7 guarantees a series of things. Section 10 relates to offences. The section is very important as it states that an employer who fails to provide within a reasonable amount of time or who gives wrong information can be penalised. Penalisation, which I would call victimisation, is being outlawed. I say well done to the Minister as the practice should be outlawed. Another section...
- Seanad: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Second Stage (20 Nov 2018)
David Norris: I will conclude in a minute. I have mentioned the possibility of victimisation and there are a couple of other issues. The Minister put a human face on the matter when she said: "There will be no more waiting on a Sunday night for a text as to whether one will be working for one hour or 30 hours". She also mentioned the problems people have in getting mortgages and bank loans. She has put...
- Seanad: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Second Stage (20 Nov 2018)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Second Stage (20 Nov 2018)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Nov 2018)
David Norris: It will be at 57 years, unless they get an extension.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Nov 2018)
David Norris: This discussion flows on naturally from our discussion on the previous matter, the Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017. Sections 31 and 32 go together. Section 31(1) states that the commission shall, following a selection process held by the PAS, appoint a person to be the director. It refers to "a" selection process, which is not terribly specific. It could be any kind of...
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Nov 2018)
David Norris: I do not mean to interrupt Senator McDowell but I am very sorry to see that there are so few Members in the House. I wonder should there not be more? May I call a quorum?
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Nov 2018)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Nov 2018)
David Norris: The Minister did not do so for 42 hours. That is nonsense.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Nov 2018)
David Norris: No, the Senator is not.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Nov 2018)
David Norris: It is bogged down by people who are entirely within their rights to use all available parliamentary means to scrutinise deeply flawed legislation. The Irish Timeseditorial will explain it to the Minister.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Nov 2018)
David Norris: So was I. I topped the poll.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Nov 2018)
David Norris: What is Senator Noone doing here?
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Nov 2018)
David Norris: The Minister asked about the amount of time being spent on the Bill. I can justify it very simply and clearly using two points from the editorial in The Irish Times, which states, "Ross insists that this is designed to remove political interference [his well-vaunted cronyism] from the appointment of judges but it will do no such thing."
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Nov 2018)
David Norris: The Minister queried.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Nov 2018)
David Norris: The Minister queried the amount of time.