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- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Which Minister initiated the contact? Was it the Tánaiste? Did she ask that contact be made with the President?
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Who? It was on a Sunday.
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Not normally on a Sunday. The Minister knows that.
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Brendan Howlin: I am simply asking a question.
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Did the Minister initiate it?
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Brendan Howlin: The Taoiseach's Department is not normally staffed on a Sunday.
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Brendan Howlin: That is in general.
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Brendan Howlin: In this case.
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Does the Deputy think she was wrong?
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Brendan Howlin: On another day the Deputy would have been doing cartwheels.
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Twisting the truth.
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Not at all.
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Brendan Howlin: I was part of the Government that produced it.
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Brendan Howlin: That is the very point I was making.
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Brendan Howlin: To truly champion the highest of standards, we must do so on every occasion-----
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Brendan Howlin: -----even when we know and we like the people directly involved. Unfortunately, it seems that no objective test was applied in this particular case. That has raised question marks about whether other qualified candidates had their applications handled in an objective and transparent manner. It has at least appeared to link this appointment to the reopening of the Stepaside Garda station,...
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Brendan Howlin: There is no such thing as a point of information under Standing Orders.
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Brendan Howlin: Can I have my clock restarted?
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Brendan Howlin: I have no wish to tell the Leas-Cheann Comhairle the rules of the House, but there is no such thing under our Standing Orders as a point of information. At the outset, I want to make one thing absolutely clear. I have known Ms Justice Máire Whelan for many, many years.
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Brendan Howlin: She is a person of integrity and passion, with a steely determination and an absolute commitment to leaving our nation a better place than she found it. I knew her back when I was drafting the Civil Unions Bill in 2006. Her immense experience in the area of family law was invaluable in helping us to draft the legislation that became the precursor for civil partnership legislation, which, in...