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- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2019)
David Norris: Unusually.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2019)
David Norris: I seek guidance from the Chair, which can come from Senator McDowell via the Chair if he likes. I understand that amendments Nos. 96 and 97 have not been taken yet.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2019)
David Norris: I understand. I just wanted to make sure that I was not talking about something that had already been addressed. Section 49(2) states: In the event that a person appointed to judicial office has not been recommended by the Commission under this Act, the Minister shall within 30 days of that appointment cause to be laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas a statement containing a reasoned...
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2019)
David Norris: Yes.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2019)
David Norris: Did I?
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2019)
David Norris: The Leas-Chathaoirligh is attempting the science of physiognomy. It was a great passion of the Victorians but has proved to be most unreliable.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2019)
David Norris: My late brother, who was very unreliable, could go into a bank and ask for €500-----
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2019)
David Norris: -----and be offered €5,000. I have never done anything in the least incriminating.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2019)
David Norris: Yet if I asked for €100 my birth certificate would be sought.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2019)
David Norris: I just wanted to illustrate to the Leas-Chathaoirleach the dangers of applying physiognomy as if it were, as the Victorians believed, a science. Let me outline my concern, and this is indeed section 49.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2019)
David Norris: The whole idea of placing things before the House, having debates and all of the rest of it, seems to me to raise at least marginally or spectrally the question of the separation of powers. What would we be doing in this House debating the merits of judges or the wisdom of the Government appointing this, that or the other?
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2019)
David Norris: St. Andrew's was a horrible school.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2019)
David Norris: Trinity was good.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2019)
David Norris: I did not have the appetite for port that the Senator has.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2019)
David Norris: None.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2019)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2019)
David Norris: Surely not.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2019)
David Norris: They actually resent doing it and look at it as our responsibility.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2019)
David Norris: They may make law but they are not appointed to make law.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2019)
David Norris: I will make a couple of comments. I normally agree with my distinguished colleague, Senator McDowell, particularly in light of his wide experience of the law as Attorney General, Minister for justice and as a very effective practising senior counsel. I take issue with one statement wherein he said that judges, particularly at the higher end of the Judiciary in the High Court, Supreme Court...