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- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Nov 2019)
Paul Coghlan: The House is always asked by the Chair are the groupings agreed.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Nov 2019)
Paul Coghlan: Order, please. I had to ask if they were agreed.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Nov 2019)
Paul Coghlan: That is what I am looking for.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Nov 2019)
Paul Coghlan: But not amendment Nos. 11 and 12.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Nov 2019)
Paul Coghlan: Is it agreed that amendments Nos 7 to 10, inclusive be taken together?
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Nov 2019)
Paul Coghlan: I am advised that we can take amendments Nos. 7 to 10, inclusive, together.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Nov 2019)
Paul Coghlan: I am not changing my mind. The Members know that if amendment No. 7 was agreed, amendments Nos. 8 and 9 cannot be moved. The Members who are disadvantaged accept that.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Nov 2019)
Paul Coghlan: The Members cannot all speak together, please.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Nov 2019)
Paul Coghlan: I will take Members, one at a time.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Nov 2019)
Paul Coghlan: Unfortunately, it is up to the House. The tradition is to ask for agreement.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Nov 2019)
Paul Coghlan: Amendments are taken together by agreement.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Nov 2019)
Paul Coghlan: No, because there is always agreement.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Nov 2019)
Paul Coghlan: Senators are all trying to speak together. Order, please. What does Senator Craughwell wish to say?
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Nov 2019)
Paul Coghlan: Ciúnas, please. I must-----
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Nov 2019)
Paul Coghlan: I am going to clarify the procedural position. I will read the House a note.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Nov 2019)
Paul Coghlan: Order. Will Senators please resume their seats?
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Nov 2019)
Paul Coghlan: The Senator is out of order. I am not hearing anything.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Nov 2019)
Paul Coghlan: Save it. Will Senators please listen to me? I am going to make a ruling.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Nov 2019)
Paul Coghlan: Hold on. I want you all to pay attention to this. The Chair is always anxious to accommodate, as far as is reasonable, the views of Senators as to the grouping of amendments, and for this purpose generally seeks the assent of the House before proceeding. However, it is ultimately the prerogative of the Chair as the judge of order in the Seanad to rule on methods by which amendments are to...
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Nov 2019)
Paul Coghlan: The grouping of amendments is also sometimes necessary to protect the interests of a Senator whose later amendment might not be open to debate by reason of a decision on an earlier amendment, for example, in the case of physical alternatives. Groupings are never a matter for formal decision by the House. Amendments are grouped for a variety of reasons, for example, where an amendment is...