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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission: Commissioner Designate (8 Oct 2014)
David Stanton: No. You cannot. I am sorry.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission: Commissioner Designate (8 Oct 2014)
David Stanton: Senator, when the Chair speaks have a culture of good manners, stop and listen.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission: Commissioner Designate (8 Oct 2014)
David Stanton: Sorry, Ms Logan. I ask the Senator to listen for a moment. The chief commissioner designate does not come before this committee too often. We have an engagement today. The issues the Senator is raising are extremely important and it may be possible to have a specific meeting on those issues at a later stage. It is not fair, and the Senator said this, to have a detailed discussion on...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission: Commissioner Designate (8 Oct 2014)
David Stanton: In fairness, we could go into detail on any of the issues members have raised today but that is not the purpose of this meeting. If there are issues members are concerned about pertaining to the new commission, I am anxious that we would give notice and have a specific meeting on them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission: Commissioner Designate (8 Oct 2014)
David Stanton: Very brief, please.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission: Commissioner Designate (8 Oct 2014)
David Stanton: It is-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission: Commissioner Designate (8 Oct 2014)
David Stanton: No Senator.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission: Commissioner Designate (8 Oct 2014)
David Stanton: I will suspend the meeting if this keeps up.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission: Commissioner Designate (8 Oct 2014)
David Stanton: I apologise if I offended Senator Mullen in any way; that was not the intention. My difficulty as Chairman is that we often have a problem getting a quorum. You are an official member of the committee. We have a problem quite often-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission: Commissioner Designate (8 Oct 2014)
David Stanton: That is not true.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission: Commissioner Designate (8 Oct 2014)
David Stanton: You are being disorderly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission: Commissioner Designate (8 Oct 2014)
David Stanton: You are being disorderly, please.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission: Commissioner Designate (8 Oct 2014)
David Stanton: I have suggested to you-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission: Commissioner Designate (8 Oct 2014)
David Stanton: -----that if there are substantive issues you want to raise-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission: Commissioner Designate (8 Oct 2014)
David Stanton: In fairness to the commissioner who came here today for an engagement with us, if we want to raise serious issues we should give notice and have a specific meeting on those issues.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission: Commissioner Designate (8 Oct 2014)
David Stanton: Of course.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission: Commissioner Designate (8 Oct 2014)
David Stanton: Of course.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission: Commissioner Designate (8 Oct 2014)
David Stanton: I ask Ms Logan to communicate with the committee through the clerk. That would be very useful and everybody would then have her view on the matter.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission: Commissioner Designate (8 Oct 2014)
David Stanton: I am not sure whether the Senator was present at the start of the meeting, but one is not supposed to criticise or make charges against any person or entity by name or in such a way as to make him, her or it identifiable.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission: Commissioner Designate (8 Oct 2014)
David Stanton: I will read the advice again. Under the salient rulings of the Chair, Members should not comment on, criticise or make charges against a person outside the Houses or an official by name or in such a way as to make him or her identifiable.