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- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Frances Fitzgerald: I am surprised at the Deputy. He knows very well that it would be extraordinary to suggest, if that is what he is suggesting-----
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Frances Fitzgerald: -----that there was any pressure put on the President or-----
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Frances Fitzgerald: -----that he succumbed.
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Frances Fitzgerald: The Deputy is well experienced in government. He knows quite well that we do not come to the House and talk about contact between any particular officer in a Department with the President.
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Frances Fitzgerald: The Deputy knows very well-----
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Frances Fitzgerald: Let me answer. When a judge is about to be appointed there is always contact from the relevant Department, which is the Department of the Taoiseach-----
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Frances Fitzgerald: -----with the President. To suggest, first, that there is any inappropriate pressure put on the President-----
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Frances Fitzgerald: I am responding.
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Frances Fitzgerald: I already said that after the nomination of a judge contact is always made from the Department of the Taoiseach to make those arrangements. To suggest that there was any pressure-----
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Frances Fitzgerald: -----or to say that the President in any way would succumb to pressure is outrageous and absolutely untrue. It is inappropriate to suggest it.
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Frances Fitzgerald: Does the Deputy want me to answer?
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Frances Fitzgerald: The question shows a complete misunderstanding of the role of the role of the board-----
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Frances Fitzgerald: Of course it did not.
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Frances Fitzgerald: It is not its role to recommend judges to the Government.
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Frances Fitzgerald: Judges do not apply to the board.
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Frances Fitzgerald: No, I did not.
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Frances Fitzgerald: What was the first question?
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Frances Fitzgerald: What was the first part of this question?
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Frances Fitzgerald: Let me be very clear, and I have said this a number of times already. All applications that were in the system were all considered and due process was, and is, always accorded to all applications that come to the Minister for Justice and Equality, whether it is via the Judicial Appointments Advisory Board or the system that is in place for judges.
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Frances Fitzgerald: All receive due process and due consideration.