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Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Answer that question or this is pointless.

Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: They are not answers.

Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: You are a disgrace.

Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Sorry, Deputy O'Callaghan, can we even get an answer to that?

Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister is not answering the question.

Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Entirely outrageous. The Minister is stonewalling.

Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am listening.

Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister is not answering.

Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: The question is relevant.

Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: We need to know why it was that the successful applicant was seated at the table of decision at the time of decision. We need to know why the new Taoiseach, Deputy Varadkar, breached Cabinet confidentiality - as it seems to me - compromised the sole constitutional prerogative that the Minister, Deputy Flanagan, has set out in a conversation with the leader of Fianna Fáil, not a member...

Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: How is that possible? Our Fianna Fáil colleagues may wish to look at the transcripts from this morning.

Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: It was very clear that the conversation was not just a casual tête-à-têtebetween the leaders of Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil.

Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: It was very directly an attempt by Deputy Micheál Martin to prevent an appointment to the Bench by Government. He does not have the right or the authority - legally or constitutionally - to intervene in that way.

Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: The great tragedy, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle, mo bhrón, mo bhrón, mo chomhbhrón, is that he is not here to answer those questions himself.

Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: First, I wish to remark on the fact that Deputy Micheál Martin of Fianna Fáil is not present for this exchange.

Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Since he shouted so loudly for this opportunity, I am surprised at him.

Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am also interested to hear, as this narrative has unfolded, from Fianna Fáil that this matter is not now a breach of the confidence and supply agreement, which of course facilitates the Fine Gael Members sitting on the Government benches. To be clear, there is no suggestion nor has there been any suggestion-----

Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: There has been no suggestion that anything unconstitutional has been done by the Government. Let us not go off on a wild goose chase in that regard. What has been said, and what is absolutely apparent is that the Government deliberately and wilfully circumvented the law. To be precise, I am referring to the Court and Court Officers Act 1995. Deputy O'Callaghan has set out the content of...

Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Is it a belief on either side of Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil that this confidence and supply agreement somehow confers authority on the leader of Fianna Fáil to have a say on who might be appointed to the Bench? There is no doubt that the appointment of the outgoing Attorney General smacks of a political appointment. I think it stinks to the highest heavens of the scent of...

Pre-European Council: Statements (21 Jun 2017)

Mary Lou McDonald: Beidh mé ag roint mo chuid ama leis an Teachta Crowe. My colleague will focus on key issues on the agenda for the Council meeting, while I will focus on Brexit. Last Monday David Davis and Michel Barnier met for the first time to formally launch the Brexit talks. Britain has now agreed to negotiate the divorce deal first and then to move on to its future relationship with the...