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- Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2015)
David Norris: The Minister has said that the purpose of amendment No. 145 is to include the Chief Justice. That is part of it but there is a part of it that the Minister did not explain. The earlier part of the amendment reads: "where the legal practitioner is a barrister, that the Authority, in accordance with Part 9." I refer to the original amendment No. 85 on Committee Stage which proposed section...
- Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2015)
David Norris: The Minister has also inserted "the Authority".
- Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2015)
David Norris: It was not there before.
- Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2015)
David Norris: It does not arise in subsection (4) on where the High Court makes an order. The word "under" is removed right at the beginning and cites the section under which the order is made. Removing it is madness and I have not yet heard an explanation as to why it should not remain.
- Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2015)
David Norris: Will the Minister explain the point on "under" further?
- Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2015)
David Norris: Frankly, that is complete nonsense. The order is made "under" a section. It is just daft. Currently, it reads:Where the High Court makes an order--(a) under section 74(3)(b), (b) under section... These are the sections under which the order is made. It could not be clearer. The Minister is making the Bill worse. This is disastrous and dreadful stuff.
- Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2015)
David Norris: They will not.
- Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2015)
David Norris: Of course it is necessary. Subsection (1) reads, "A copy of every order made by the High Court under section" such and such. Of course it has to be repeated. This is dreadfully bad drafting. It means absolutely nothing new. It is not even in brackets. If it were in brackets, one could make some feeble argument.
- Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2015)
David Norris: No, it does not.
- Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2015)
David Norris: It is not, because the Minister is removing "under".
- Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2015)
David Norris: Amendment No. 151 reads, "In page 41, in subsection (4)(a) of the section 78 inserted by amendment 88 at Committee Stage in the Seanad, to delete "under"." The Minister is removing "under".
- Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2015)
David Norris: I am totally nonplussed, because the amendment states:In page 41, in subsection (4)(a) of the section 78 inserted by amendment 88 at Committee Stage in the Seanad, to delete “under”.
- Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2015)
David Norris: Yes. That is what I am talking about.
- Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2015)
David Norris: No, I am referring to amendment No. 151.
- Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2015)
David Norris: No. I am talking about amendment No. 151. I am sorry if there is any confusion.
- Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2015)
David Norris: Where is the top line? Is the Minister referring to page 40?
- Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2015)
David Norris: The High Court makes "an order" and the amendment deletes "under".
- Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2015)
David Norris: Report Stage is a late Stage to be enhancing it in this very significant manner.
- Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2015)
David Norris: Putting that aside, I draw the attention of the House to the fact that, in amendment No. 145, we have substituted "where the legal practitioner is a barrister, that the Authority, in accordance with Part 9, strike the name of the person off the roll"? Amendment No. 158, however, states: "Where, on or after the date on which this subsection comes into operation, the Benchers of the Honourable...
- Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2015)
David Norris: I take it that we are reliant on section 14C of the 1994 Act for a definition of "monitor", because I do not see one at any point in the Bill. Would it not have been useful to put a definition of "monitor" into the early part of the Bill which contains definitions?