Results 6,281-6,300 of 21,096 for speaker:Charles Flanagan
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Jan 2019)
Charles Flanagan: I am not here to defend the comments of someone who is not present but I do not think the intention was to physically beat anybody.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Jan 2019)
Charles Flanagan: The Acting Chairman must not have been listening.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Jan 2019)
Charles Flanagan: Is it in order that the past 20 minutes have been devoted to criticising somebody who is not in the House to defend himself?
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Jan 2019)
Charles Flanagan: I do not intend to read the comments.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Jan 2019)
Charles Flanagan: I have not read the comments to which Senator McDowell refers and I do not intend to read them.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Jan 2019)
Charles Flanagan: Including today?
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Jan 2019)
Charles Flanagan: Excluding today then.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Jan 2019)
Charles Flanagan: Senator McDowell had not heard about it.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Jan 2019)
Charles Flanagan: I have done so in the Dáil and in the course of the 75 hours of this debate, if the Senator will check the record. I am not going to repeat it.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Jan 2019)
Charles Flanagan: The Minister is not here to defend himself. This is fundamentally unfair.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Jan 2019)
Charles Flanagan: I wish to make a very brief intervention. I seek the Acting Chairman's help. Once again, Senator McDowell is referring to sections 48 and 49. I agree with much of what he said. I have tabled amendments to change sections 48 and 49. I am not in a position to discuss them because we are actually dealing with amendment No. 85b. I ask the Acting Chairman to assist the House by facilitating...
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Jan 2019)
Charles Flanagan: In due course, yes.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Jan 2019)
Charles Flanagan: The House will have them in due course.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Jan 2019)
Charles Flanagan: There is no frustration on my part. I want to make that precisely clear. I merely seek the assistance of the Chair for what I regard as good order.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Jan 2019)
Charles Flanagan: I merely seek the Chair's assistance. I do not think it is too much to ask.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Jan 2019)
Charles Flanagan: I point out for the benefit of Senators who may have had the opportunity of reading the transcript of the previous debate in the House that I oppose the content of the current sections. The amendments that gave rise to the current text were inserted by the Opposition at an earlier Stage and I intend to revisit the issue. Again, I seek the assistance of the Chair regarding the maintenance of...
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Jan 2019)
Charles Flanagan: This is the Seanad.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Jan 2019)
Charles Flanagan: I thought we were dealing with the Bill in the Seanad.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Jan 2019)
Charles Flanagan: I might remind the Chair, who was not present when I made the point earlier, that we are not debating sections 48 and 49; we have been debating for almost an hour 85b.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Jan 2019)
Charles Flanagan: Senator Norris has now requested leave to debate sections 48 and 49.