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Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: Please allow me to finish. I ask the Minister not to interrupt.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: The Minister gave lengthy replies, but none of them responded specifically to the points raised by Senator McDowell and me.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: Is the role of the Attorney General constrained unconstitutionally by section 27? That is the nub of the issue. I have one more point to make on the section.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I have a final point to make on section 27. On a point of order, it is not acceptable to be constantly interrupted when I am trying to make a point and when I have not previously spoken on the section. I take issue with the Minister in that regard. The intent of amendment No. 66 was to amend the introductory part of section 27(1) to provide that there would have to be written consent for...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I did not. I was reading from my legal advice. The bulk of what I gave the Minister was from my legal advice and not from Senator McDowell. It was referring to points raised by Senator McDowell but the document was my legal advice. In terms of confidential information and disclosures, in the very powerful RTÉ programme last night entitled "Whistleblower: The Maurice McCabe Story", we...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I hope the Leas-Chathaoirleach will apply the same standard to Senators Norris and McDowell because I am beginning to feel that the same standard is not being applied. As I said, this is my first intervention on section 27.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: With respect, they spoke for far longer than I have spoken and I am entitled to finish the point I am making. I am about to-----

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I am calling a quorum because this is outrageous.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I have not called a quorum but I think enough people want me to call one.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I have called a quorum. I will not be treated like this by the Leas-Chathaoirleach or anyone else.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: No. I am entitled to finish my point.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: For clarification, I am holding up a note, from which I am reading, which is from the Labour Party legal adviser on section 27. That is what I was reading from and it had not previously been raised in this House. I would be grateful to finish the point I was making without any further interruption. I do think there is an inconsistency of treatment and I thank Senators Clifford-Lee and...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: The Minister was not fair to me. A Chairman in the Seanad should allow a Senator to speak as long as he or she is not waffling. I was not waffling.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: The Leas-Chathaoirleach did not interrupt me. A Chairperson should enable a Senator to finish speaking without constant ministerial interruptions. That is the point I am making. I am not making a point about the Chair's interruptions. I was speaking for the first time on an important section in an important Bill.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Senator and I am glad to hear it. That is the conclusion of what I wanted to say. I would have said it all in a far shorter period and would not have called a quorum had I not been constantly interrupted.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I join Senator Humphreys on this. It is ridiculous for a Minister to interrupt constantly a speaking Senator who has not spoken on the section previously, and then attack the Chair for not allowing the debate to flow. It would have flowed a lot more smoothly if I had been allowed simply to make my points without interruption. I had a specific number of points and I was about to finish when...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: They were very short pieces. The document from which I read at length was our legal advice, which I am entitled to read into the record because it has not been dealt with here before. The points I raised were very short excerpts from the very lengthy responses of the Minister to the very lengthy points made by Senator McDowell on previous occasions when the Senator spoke to amendments and...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I still believe, and Senator McDowell will when he looks at the record, that we did not receive satisfactory responses to the very real concerns he, I and Senator Norris raised about section 27. We will be raising the points again on Report Stage.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I take issue with that. If they look at the record, any objective observer will see that I have spoken very little throughout this Bill.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: I have made succinct and concise contributions.