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- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2018)
David Norris: It has. It shows the state of mind of the Minister.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2018)
David Norris: Did the Minister, Deputy Ross, not suggest that?
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2018)
David Norris: The Minister has nothing on me.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2018)
David Norris: My query is very much in the same area as Senator Bacik's. I wonder about this number of 17, which was cobbled together because they made a mistake in the other House. It seems quite unwieldy to have 17 people sitting around a table and I believe their deliberations would take an awful long time. Does the Minister think this number is unwieldy or manageable? Would the deliberations take a...
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2018)
David Norris: I am grateful to the Minister for reconsidering and answering Senator Craughwell's question but, as I understand it, he also asked whether the Attorney General or another relevant person would withdraw if he or she were a candidate and whether arrangements would be made for a substitute in order to keep the balance on the commission.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2018)
David Norris: Is there provision for a substitute?
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2018)
David Norris: I do not agree with it. Votáil.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2018)
David Norris: Agreed.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2018)
David Norris: I support the thrust of this very useful amendment but it seems to me that the general framework of section 11(1)(b), which says that members shall "subject to subsection (2), be paid by the Commission such remuneration (if any)and allowances for expenses (if any) as the Minister with the consent of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform may from time to time determine", gives a very...
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2018)
David Norris: No, he is not.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2018)
David Norris: That is a kind of stylistic phrase, which the Minister is taking literally. He comes from Mountmellick. That is the problem.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2018)
David Norris: That is fair enough. Well it is not really but we will move on. The reason I said the Minister might be disposed to accept this is that he spoke very well about the need to consider the establishment of schools for judges and so on, such as there are on the Continent of Europe. It seemed to me that this might be in line with that kind of thing. The Minister wants to get the best out of...
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2018)
David Norris: That is a very sweeping statement.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2018)
David Norris: The Minister's position does seem reasonable to me and I hope, which underlines the need for a break between Committee and Report Stages because I would hate to think of the Minister finding himself in difficulty, that it would also include a situation where it would extend to everybody, given that Senator McDowell's argument seems quite good even though it is precluded on this amendment. It...
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2018)
David Norris: No, but it is a filibuster.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2018)
David Norris: It is horrendous.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2018)
David Norris: A thingamajig.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2018)
David Norris: They could be fortune tellers.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2018)
David Norris: Like the drafter of the legislation.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2018)
David Norris: It is not.