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Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Barry Ward: I move amendment No. 27: In page 13, line 24, to delete “shall” and substitute “may”.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Barry Ward: I move amendment No. 28: In page 13, lines 24 and 25, to delete all words from and including “lay” in line 24 down to and including line 25 and substitute the following: “lay members from among the persons recommended by the Public Appointments Service under subsection (2), or such other lay member as the Minister deems suitable, and where the Minister appoints a...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Barry Ward: I agree with Senator McDowell. I understand where the reference to the Equal Status Act comes from. However, the Equal Status Act is there for the purpose of enforcing rights and creates categories in which litigation can be conducted to protect people in those categories. Broadly speaking in the context of this amendment while it is important to recognise that, of course, the Judiciary...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Barry Ward: This section is a very important recognition of the non-application of the Freedom of Information Act as I understand it. This issue will come up in one of my subsequent amendments. It is very important to maintain the confidentiality of those who may apply for judicial office. If that is applied, a whole raft of people, who would certainly be qualified and who might make excellent judges,...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Barry Ward: I do not agree with the amendment. I understand where Senator McDowell is coming from but I feel he has created a very forced scenario, which he has reinforced by suggesting there will somehow be a judicial veto. I do not think that is the case, which is why the Minister has strived to have a small commission with a balance between judicial and lay figures. Senator McDowell has put this...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Barry Ward: Constitutionally, absolutely, but the suggestion was that we should not fetter the Government, while in fact we should. The Senator is right that constitutionally there is a trump card there but as legislators, it should be our job to put in place legislation that fetters, controls or manipulates the powers of the Government. That is why so much of what Ministers do must come back to these...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Barry Ward: That is not in the Bill.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Barry Ward: A Hobson's choice.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Oct 2022)

Barry Ward: The Deputy Leader will be aware that in the years since the sham presidential election in Belarus a number of Members of this House, the Dáil and the European Parliament have adopted Belarussian political prisoners. These people were imprisoned not because they had committed crimes but because they had somehow opposed or offended Lukashenko's regime. I adopted a man called Maksim...

Seanad: European Arrest Warrant (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (25 Oct 2022)

Barry Ward: I welcome this important Bill. It is also important that we keep up with our obligations to transpose this legislation under our partnerships with other states across the EU. I will comment on the Bill's structure. As other Senators have acknowledged, it is not a Bill that is likely to be read by ordinary people on the street. I hope that the vast majority of ordinary citizens will never...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Barry Ward: I have amendments Nos. 10 and 26. They may not all be in order but it seems to me they are all related to the same material and should all be discussed together.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Barry Ward: I heard that but I am sorry to say I was not notified personally, despite the fact it is in my name.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Barry Ward: Senator Emer Currie and I submitted that amendment. I understand Senator Currie was notified that it was ruled out of order.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Barry Ward: I am proposing that all four would be taken together because they are all related.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Barry Ward: I can speak to the section. To my mind, it would make the whole process more streamlined if we dealt with all of them together. That is what I am proposing.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Barry Ward: How is it out of order? Surely, if I am making a proposal, the amendments will be dealt with together?

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Barry Ward: Amendment No. 26 deals with the same matter. I propose that it be dealt with at the same time as amendments Nos. 7 and 9. I have something to say about amendment No. 10 being out of order but I accept what the Acting Chair is saying.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Barry Ward: Yes. It is consequential to the decision on amendments Nos. 7 and 9.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Barry Ward: Amendment No. 19 can be dealt with as well.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Barry Ward: Senator Currie and I tabled an amendment, No. 9, which is on the same lines as this. As my colleague has outlined, in the original iteration of the legislation, there was a provision to allow the IHREC, an important State body with important functions, to be involved in the decisions of the commission about who would be proposed to Government for appointment. It was originally included...