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- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2019)
Charles Flanagan: We went through this at some length on the last occasion we discussed it.I will reflect further on the content of the amendment. I want to mention amendment No. 96a which is a more substantive amendment but I am not going to accept this now.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2019)
Charles Flanagan: We agreed to decouple them and I did say at the time that there was merit because they were linked. However, that was disputed. Now I see that there is a link.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2019)
Charles Flanagan: I am, however, a mere servant of the Seanad, an invitee sometimes. If I am not out of order I could mention amendments Nos. 96 and 97 and say to Senator McDowell that I will be disposed to accepting both amendments.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2019)
Charles Flanagan: Amendments Nos. 96 and 97.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2019)
Charles Flanagan: They appear to be related.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2019)
Charles Flanagan: I ask the Senator to reflect on the matter. These are amendments on which we will reach agreement, in spite of him.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2019)
Charles Flanagan: I will not even enter into a debate on that issue, but I would welcome a discussion with Senator McDowell on the point. I would not have anticipated receiving a welcome from a former Attorney General, Tánaiste and Minister for Justice-----
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2019)
Charles Flanagan: I ask the Senator to reflect on the matter.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2019)
Charles Flanagan: Of course, I am. Everybody in this House is anticipating the passage of the Bill, bar Senator McDowell and the Senator.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2019)
Charles Flanagan: I said bar Senators McDowell and Norris.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2019)
Charles Flanagan: The Senator tried to flush them out.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2019)
Charles Flanagan: I agree with the Senator.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2019)
Charles Flanagan: The tedium is-----
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2019)
Charles Flanagan: Not really. The publication arrangements are set out clearly in section 48, as amended. On the matter of confidentiality, I again remind Senators of sections 27 and 28 which deal with the issue of confidential information. We have amended the Bill to inform candidates when they have been shortlisted, which is desirable. I detect a welcome on the part of Senators for this, as a courtesy...
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2019)
Charles Flanagan: No.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2019)
Charles Flanagan: Contrary to what was stated in the newspapers, I was not called a nutjob.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2019)
Charles Flanagan: That is contrary to what appeared in the media so loved by Senator McDowell in this context.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2019)
Charles Flanagan: Turned down by the commission.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2019)
Charles Flanagan: My understanding is it would be fully preserved in the context of the new legislation. Sections 27 and 28 deal with communications from the commission to the interested parties, not from the Government which would not be communicating the information.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2019)
Charles Flanagan: No. A Minister would be bound by Cabinet confidentiality. I do not believe the Senator can adduce any evidence where it might have happened to substantiate what would be an unacceptable position if Ministers were in a position to speak freely about a process that had taken place in accordance with due process at the Cabinet. I do not envisage that it would happen and neither do I envisage...