Results 5,101-5,120 of 21,096 for speaker:Charles Flanagan
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2019)
Charles Flanagan: Certainly not.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2019)
Charles Flanagan: Lest my silence be misinterpreted by the Senator, I have every confidence in every member of the High Court.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2019)
Charles Flanagan: A due process.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2019)
Charles Flanagan: I ask that it be withdrawn.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2019)
Charles Flanagan: The Senator does not understand the word. He regards it as being in some way delicious.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2019)
Charles Flanagan: That is outrageous.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2019)
Charles Flanagan: A Chathaoirligh, will you intervene, please?
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2019)
Charles Flanagan: Níl.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2019)
Charles Flanagan: I call for a quorum.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2019)
Charles Flanagan: Of course I can call for a quorum.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2019)
Charles Flanagan: Can I call a walk-through vote?
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2019)
Charles Flanagan: Senator Butler has just returned to the Chamber.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2019)
Charles Flanagan: I do not intend to accept the amendment because the consequences of it have not adequately been thought through. What the Senators have in mind is a concept of "once recommended, always recommended". That can present difficulties in so far as the workings of the commission are concerned. I do not know how this would work. For example, would it mean that a person would be recommended for a...
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2019)
Charles Flanagan: No, I think the preferable way to deal with this is to acknowledge in the instance the right on the part of the commission and its members to recommend to the Government and engage in an order of ranking or grading. Senator Norris flips it on its head and speaks about degrading.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2019)
Charles Flanagan: I do not have a view on this because these are issues that will ultimately be decided by the commission independent of the Government and that process. There is a scenario where there will be an order of recommendation for the Government. In practice, listening closely-----
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2019)
Charles Flanagan: Yes.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2019)
Charles Flanagan: As does the Bill.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2019)
Charles Flanagan: The point of reference to Senator Bacik was that her amendment was to the effect that the Government would be mandated to give appropriate consideration to the order of ranking. To my mind this is where it would impinge on the free hand of the Government in respect of the constitutional requirement. In any event, looking at Senator McDowell's scenario, the practice, as I envisage it, will...
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2019)
Charles Flanagan: That is what I said.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2019)
Charles Flanagan: In the order.