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- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)
Mick Wallace: I move amendment No. 69:In page 16, between lines 15 and 16, to insert the following:“(8) When conducting a selection process for the purpose of recommending lay persons for appointment, the Public Appointments Service shall have regard to— (a) the objective that the membership should comprise equal numbers of men and women, and (b) the objective that the membership should...
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)
Mick Wallace: I must dig back up the notes.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)
Mick Wallace: It merely seeks equal male and female membership. I would be very surprised if Deputy O'Connell votes against us on this one. For a woman fighting the good fight for women in here, it will go down badly if she votes against it.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)
Mick Wallace: I move amendment No. 76:In page 17, line 10, to delete “lay”. I actually have addressed the matter.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)
Mick Wallace: I understand. My amendment is linked to other amendments that I have discussed.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)
Mick Wallace: My amendment is based on the same principle. Obviously I have established that my amendment will not be accepted, so I will not push it to a vote.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)
Mick Wallace: I move amendment No. 80:In page 17, line 15, to delete “, 4 of whom shall be lay members”.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)
Mick Wallace: I move amendment No. 84:In page 17, lines 28 to 30, to delete all words from “, the majority” in line 28 down to and including “determines” in line 30.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)
Mick Wallace: I move amendment No. 85:In page 17, lines 36 to 38, to delete all words from “, the majority” in line 36 down to and including “determines” in line 38.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)
Mick Wallace: Deputy Seán Canney is really a member of Fine Gael.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)
Mick Wallace: Is it a good time to have a coffee break?
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)
Mick Wallace: Does he have his card with him?
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)
Mick Wallace: The aim of the removal of the section, and the amendment to remove section 46 later on, is to ensure that all applicants for all judicial appointments must go through the formal application process, which requires the commission to advertise rather than undertake the expressions of interest process envisaged in section 46 when "the judicial office of Chief Justice, President of the Court of...
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)
Mick Wallace: Yes.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)
Mick Wallace: Yes.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)
Mick Wallace: I move amendment No. 134:In page 30, after line 38, to insert the following:“(3) The Government shall nominate for appointment one of the three persons recommended by the relevant committee in accordance with subsection (2).”. All these amendments are linked and deal with the same principle. I am seeking to insert, after line 38, that the Government shall nominate for...
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)
Mick Wallace: I am obviously of the opinion that the Government is overstating the meaning of the constitutional provision with regard to its role in advising the President on the appointment of judges. The relevant article of the Constitution to which I understand the Minister to be referring is Article 13.9, which is a general provision on how the President exercises his powers and functions, not just...
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)
Mick Wallace: It is a matter of opinion. The Government will say what it wants. We can argue against it. There are senior counsel who are prepared to say they think it is unconstitutional and there are senior counsels who are prepared to say they think it is not unconstitutional. If we are trying to do what we set out to do, why not test it properly? The opinion should be published. It is all very...
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)
Mick Wallace: There is probably not as much in terms of difference between Fine Gael and Sinn Féin as people think. The 2017 EU justice scoreboard, in a report published by the European Commission in April 2017, indicated that we were the second worst in Europe for Government interference in the appointment of judges. We will probably still be the second worst in Europe after the Bill is published....
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)
Mick Wallace: I am only pointing out that the EU report shows that Ireland has the second highest level of Government freedom to appoint judges in the European Union. That is all I am saying. It means that we have the second highest level of political involvement in the appointment of the Judiciary. I am saying that unless we change things dramatically, we will still have one of the most politically...