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- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I am sticking to amendment No. 30. The rebellion of the United Irishmen was Ireland's first republican rising. It began with a successful rebel attack on the Cork militia and the Ancient Britons who were cavalrymen at Prosperous, County Kildare.
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: No, it is not. Deputy John McGuinness referred to a lady by the name of Yvonne, who is incarcerated in a prison because of the wrongful decision of a court. Directives of the European Court have been ignored and the Supreme Court is waiting to hear the case.
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I have not said this before. She has two children who are trying to do examinations and she is on hunger strike. She has been wrongfully detained without proper paperwork. A Supreme Court case was heard about the European directives and it has not been adjudicated on. Do they want us to go back to 1798? The Minister, Deputy Shane Ross, is hiding like the cavalrymen. 9 o’clock...
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: It will be.
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: We have gone past the stage at which we had to abandon proceedings last night. We have come back and the Ceann Comhairle has made a ruling. We are where we are but we are going around in circles. We are sending the Bill to the Seanad and expecting it to fix our problems. I know it will come back to Committee Stage here in the House but clearly we are sending out conflicting messages. One...
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I am sorry. Yes, the Law Society in Blackhall Place also contributes to the problem. Deputy Byrne was ahead of me. I was coming to that. He should give me a chance. I might talk fast-----
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Of course. It is all part of the reform of judicial services according to the infallible, inevitable, intolerable Minister, Deputy Ross. Both premises and organisations should be taken over by the State. They should be taken into public ownership and given to DIT, which is being centralised nearby at Grangegorman and is in need of extra premises. DIT is properly accountable to the State...
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Vótáil.
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Vótáil.
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Come again?
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Can I come in on a point of order?
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: On a point of clarification.
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: How are we going to clarify it?
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: That is what we are asking for.
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I, too, have listened to the Minister for Justice and Equality. I understand the predicament he is in and I thank him for his clarifications, especially those on why the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport cannot be here and on how he disagrees with his colleague. That is healthy in any democracy. Nonetheless, I am still very concerned. We are in uncharted waters and there are too...
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I was. I never denied that - never deny the bridges you go over, and praise the bridges you go over. That is what he is like now. He is like the man up on the hill of Howth, looking down on the peasants. We are here discussing his mess, and a damn fine mess he has created. It should be withdrawn. I appeal to the Minister to withdraw the Bill and give it back to the drafters and the...
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: The blind leading the blind.
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: And disgusted.
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: On a point of order-----