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Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Gerry Horkan: The Courts (Establishment and Constitution) (Amendment) Bill 2019 completed Report Stage earlier today.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Gerry Horkan: Is the Senator concluding?

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Gerry Horkan: I do not think so.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Gerry Horkan: Does Senator Craughwell wish to speak?

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Gerry Horkan: Senator Norris, please.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Gerry Horkan: I thank Senator Norris and call Senator Bacik.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Gerry Horkan: We are not finished yet Senator.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Gerry Horkan: When is it proposed to take Report Stage?

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Gerry Horkan: I did not keep track of how many hours I was in the Chair for this debate but I think it was a fair few. On my own behalf, I thank everybody, particularly today, for managing to get through 25 amendments in just over an hour and not having to use our guillotine at the end.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Gerry Horkan: I thank all Members for their co-operation. I thank the Minister for his many hours spent here, however many it was, and all his officials. I do not think we will spend this kind of number of hours on too many pieces of legislation in the future. It is a big day. We have managed to conclude Committee Stage before the summer recess, for which I thank all Members.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2019)

Gerry Horkan: I wish to pass on my sympathies and those of the Fianna Fáil Party to the family of John Bailey, including his daughter, Deputy Maria Bailey, his wife, his other four daughters, their partners and his grandchildren, and the Fine Gael family generally. I worked closely with John. We sat together on Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council. I was there a little bit before him, but for...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2019)

Gerry Horkan: I agree.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2019)

Gerry Horkan: Yes. Even leaving out the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill, the past few weeks have seen a large number of Bills from that Department. Like Senator Craughwell, I chair the House quite a bit. I was on a local authority for 12 and a half years. Senator Craughwell was not, but he knows many people who were. The agenda is the agenda and it flows from one item to the next. If we set...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2019)

Gerry Horkan: It is.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2019)

Gerry Horkan: It is done in the Dáil.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2019)

Gerry Horkan: The Dáil runs its business the same way we do, but speaking as someone who chairs the House-----

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2019)

Gerry Horkan: I thank Senator Ó Donnghaile. I was not looking for that. The business of today, tomorrow, Thursday and Friday will flow better if we allow items to flow into one another.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2019)

Gerry Horkan: Something might take 20 minutes or an hour and a half. If it takes 20 minutes after we set down a time of an hour and a half, though, we will be sitting around waiting for another hour and ten minutes for the next business. We would have to bring Ministers-----

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2019)

Gerry Horkan: Members of the public can watch on television or be in attendance whenever they like. They are more than welcome to be here. I will sign anyone in at any time. Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council or any of the 30 other local authorities will meet at 5 p.m. and do its business. Sometimes, it will not get through half its business that day and will have to return to it the next month...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2019)

Gerry Horkan: We might not get our business done efficiently. If a formal amendment has been proposed about affixing times to everything, I wish to object to it. In the interests of all Members and the efficient management of the House's business, it would be better.