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- Seanad: Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Law Provisions Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Nov 2018)
David Norris: I thank the Minister of State for his helpful reply. I propose, in consultation with my colleagues, to withdraw the amendment and reserve the right to resubmit it on Report Stage. In the meantime, the Minister of State referred to legal advice. I know that the advice of the Attorney General is usually not made available but reference was made to a "legal decision". I ask the Minister of...
- Seanad: Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Law Provisions Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Nov 2018)
David Norris: Yes, I am sure that would be very helpful. Perhaps the three of us should attend.
- Seanad: Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Law Provisions Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Nov 2018)
David Norris: The Minister of State said that the Department had not received a sufficient number of approaches, which implies that it did receive some. Could the Minister of State give us some more details on that because at another point he said that the Department was not lobbied at all.
- Seanad: Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Law Provisions Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Nov 2018)
David Norris: That implies that the Department did receive some submissions.
- Seanad: Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Law Provisions Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Nov 2018)
David Norris: That is interesting. The Department did not simply get an insufficient number of submissions; it did not get any.
- Seanad: Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Law Provisions Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Nov 2018)
David Norris: Yes.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Nov 2018)
David Norris: I send my congratulations to the President, Michael D. Higgins, on his re-election. He has been an excellent President. I just hope that the media will not turn on him and make flitters out of him, because that is always a possibility. It is a moment when we should consider the presidency because we are quite a distance from the next presidential election, and we should reflect on it. I...
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Nov 2018)
David Norris: That he is vetting-----
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2018)
David Norris: We will have two cracks at it.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2018)
David Norris: Would the Leader like to take the Chair?
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2018)
David Norris: Does the Senator mean that one could be excluded because one is not sufficiently diverse?
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2018)
David Norris: That is what he is talking about.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2018)
David Norris: I apologise in advance if I am a little more rambly than usual because I had a nasty fall yesterday and I just had the flu injection so who knows what I might say?
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2018)
David Norris: I am sure the Cathaoirleach will and so will the Minister.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2018)
David Norris: The Minister is too kind. I appreciate his heartwarming comments.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2018)
David Norris: The Minister, at least, is laughing heartily. I will take up the Cathaoirleach's invitation to make a brief comment on amendment No. 90 in the name of Senator McDowell. It seems there is-----
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2018)
David Norris: We were told we could discuss it with regard to amendments Nos. 66 to 71. Subsection 2 states:Where any of the judicial offices to which this section applies stands vacant or where the Minister reasonably apprehends that any of those offices will stand vacant, the Minister shall request the Senior Judicial Appointments Committee (in this section referred to as “the Committee”)...
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2018)
David Norris: I am on section 27(1)(b), on Senator McDowell's amendment No. 67, relating to page 20, lines 38 to 40.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2018)
David Norris: I see. I think there is a danger if Senator McDowell's or the Minister's amendment was not accepted and this one was accepted that we would then be exempting hired hacks, which I do not think would be intended at all. I am very grateful to Senator McDowell for that explanation, which clears things up a bit. I will forget amendment No. 68. Subsection 3 of amendment No. 69, a Government...
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2018)
David Norris: That prison sentence is not mandatory.