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- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: On a point of order, please-----
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: If the Ceann Comhairle will allow me make it, the point of order is that it is a perfectly legitimate process for the Bill to go into the Seanad but not a Bill on an issue like this that we cannot handle. It is like a hot teapot which we have to drop. We are sending the Bill to the Seanad-----
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: -----but that is abdicating our responsibilities here to the Seanad and letting the Minister hide under the cosh. With no disrespect to the Ceann Comhairle, that is ridiculous. We are trying to get rid of the Bill as best we can, emaciate it by removing the amendments that are illegal, send the whole lot off to the Seanad for it to deal with and bring it back some other day for another debate.
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: On a point of order, I respect the Ceann Comhairle but under what Standing Order is he invoking the two minute rule?
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: No, no. I am just asking for clarification.
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for the clarification. That is all I wanted.
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I am as confused as the rest of the Members. The optics of what has happened are certainly not good. Many amendments have been ruled out. I appreciate the Ceann Comhairle's position. We adjourned last night in disarray and he had to try to sort this out. I am not questioning his decision at all. He has informed us that several amendments, or up to 30, as far as I could make out, may not...
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: So am I.
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: With all respect to the Ceann Comhairle, I was not here the last day so I did not know whether the Minister was here or not. I was told. Dúirt bean liom go ndúirt bean léi go raibh fear i dTiobraid Árann a bhfuil póca ina léine aige. He should be here. I would not criticise him for being here because it is his duty. He created this dog's dinner and he should...
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I am and I am looking forward to much more of a say, but I wish the Minister were here to address some of the comments made last night and especially so I can seek an apology for what he said to me in front of my young daughter.
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: It was not in here; I know that. It was in the building. I am just making the point that the Minister seems to have lost the run of himself completely and is still losing the run of himself. He is in hiding now. He fleetingly came in for votes last night and fled again like a scalded cat the minute the doors were opened. He could not be restrained for a minute in here.
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I did not believe I was. I am sorry if I am. With regard to the two legal institutions, King's Inns and the Law Society in Blackhall Place, the solicitors' area, we need significant reform. Certainly, this Bill is not reforming either of them in a meaningful way. It is a mixum-gatherum now, or, as I said last night, aliquorice allsorts, and we have no sorts at the end of it.
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Could the Ceann Comhairle read them again?
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: They tried to eat it and could not.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (23 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: It is promised legislation. I have asked the Minister, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, on three occasions about interference. The Taoiseach actually welcomed the fact that 150,000 have been registered. I implore everyone to vote but I have emails from people all over the country who have been registered in Dublin when they have registered in Mayo, Cork and different places and they did not ask to be...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (23 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Are we going to have to get international observers to come in to ensure it is done right? They are all so desperate for a "Yes" vote that it is quite sickening to see it.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (23 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: They will allow anything to go on. The Minister, Deputy Harris, will canvass with Colm O'Gorman, who is outside of the law.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (23 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: RTÉ last night was not allowed put on Maria Steen because the Minister, Deputy Harris, was afraid to debate with her. That is what happened. The interference is sickening.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (23 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: We all know what happened.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (23 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I know what I am talking about.