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- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: When the Leas-Cathaoirleach regains control I will start speaking.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: The GRECO report goes on to talk about the composition of the appointments commission, and it is concerned with the need to reflect European standards. We constantly talk about being good Europeans.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: I have never seen such pain on the faces of the Government side in all my life. They hate this Bill. Why do they not stand up as people of their convictions and say, "Do you know what? We will not push this through"?
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: Paragraph 36 of the GRECO report refers to "limit[ing] potential risks of improper influence from the executive/political power over the appointment process to the judiciary". It expresses a concern about that. I thought the whole purpose of the Bill was to remove that.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: I said it to the Minister for Justice and Equality last week. I will move tomorrow morning at the Order of Business that we set aside any further debate on this, and that we debate the GRECO report properly, rather than pursue this Bill which nobody in here wants. Everybody wants to see judges appointed, and I understand there are difficulties progressing that right now. At the end of the...
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: It is black and white. GRECO has also received information directly submitted to it by the judicial authorities.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: I think I have the floor. In fairness, I have been hassled-----
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: For the record, paragraph 29 of the GRECO report stated that the Government stated that it had engaged in in-depth formal consultation with the senior representatives of the Judiciary on this draft legislation. For God's sake, tell me who decides what is in depth and who are the senior members of the Judiciary the Government engaged with when the President of the High Court, the President of...
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: Is Senator Conway now speaking for the Government?
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: One of the other definitions I would like to get from the Minister is what "in-depth" means. Is a phone call an in-depth consultation? Is it an actual round-table meeting where we sit down and discuss each aspect of the Bill? The Government cannot just fob off what is in this document and it is unfair of it to think it can. It is wrong in every sense of the word to think that we can take...
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: It is referred to but not defined.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: Excuse me, but we are discussing important issues here which will inform the debate and I believe we should have a quorum in the room.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: Following on from Senator McDowell's comments, and from my time involved in trade unionism, I saw countless appeals about appointments and so on. Section 12 of the Bill deals in more detail with this "Public Appointments Service". We are discussing a new, open and transparent way of appointing judges but there is something at the beginning of the Bill that lends itself to the "dog's dinner"...
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: How does one get appointed to the board?
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: I need to know if the Minister can do CPR.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: Is he in cardiology?
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: The Minister is very generous.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: There are one or two more that the Minister should cover also.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: Has the Minister, Deputy Flanagan told him that?
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: The guilty eight.