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Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Barry Ward: Constitutionally, absolutely, but the suggestion was that we should not fetter the Government, while in fact we should. The Senator is right that constitutionally there is a trump card there but as legislators, it should be our job to put in place legislation that fetters, controls or manipulates the powers of the Government. That is why so much of what Ministers do must come back to these...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Barry Ward: That is not in the Bill.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Barry Ward: A Hobson's choice.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Oct 2022)

Barry Ward: The Deputy Leader will be aware that in the years since the sham presidential election in Belarus a number of Members of this House, the Dáil and the European Parliament have adopted Belarussian political prisoners. These people were imprisoned not because they had committed crimes but because they had somehow opposed or offended Lukashenko's regime. I adopted a man called Maksim...

Seanad: European Arrest Warrant (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (25 Oct 2022)

Barry Ward: I welcome this important Bill. It is also important that we keep up with our obligations to transpose this legislation under our partnerships with other states across the EU. I will comment on the Bill's structure. As other Senators have acknowledged, it is not a Bill that is likely to be read by ordinary people on the street. I hope that the vast majority of ordinary citizens will never...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Barry Ward: I have amendments Nos. 10 and 26. They may not all be in order but it seems to me they are all related to the same material and should all be discussed together.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Barry Ward: I heard that but I am sorry to say I was not notified personally, despite the fact it is in my name.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Barry Ward: Senator Emer Currie and I submitted that amendment. I understand Senator Currie was notified that it was ruled out of order.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Barry Ward: I am proposing that all four would be taken together because they are all related.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Barry Ward: I can speak to the section. To my mind, it would make the whole process more streamlined if we dealt with all of them together. That is what I am proposing.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Barry Ward: How is it out of order? Surely, if I am making a proposal, the amendments will be dealt with together?

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Barry Ward: Amendment No. 26 deals with the same matter. I propose that it be dealt with at the same time as amendments Nos. 7 and 9. I have something to say about amendment No. 10 being out of order but I accept what the Acting Chair is saying.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Barry Ward: Yes. It is consequential to the decision on amendments Nos. 7 and 9.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Barry Ward: Amendment No. 19 can be dealt with as well.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Barry Ward: Senator Currie and I tabled an amendment, No. 9, which is on the same lines as this. As my colleague has outlined, in the original iteration of the legislation, there was a provision to allow the IHREC, an important State body with important functions, to be involved in the decisions of the commission about who would be proposed to Government for appointment. It was originally included...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Barry Ward: This amendment is absolutely and utterly misguided. It preposterously presupposes that it is appropriate for this House to rush headlong, as it has done in lots of other legislation, towards excluding former Members from any kind of operation after they leave this House. Oftentimes, in fact perhaps most of the time, people leave this or the other House without very much notice and find...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Barry Ward: There are different units of time for each of them - absolutely. It is two years for Deputies and Senators, five years for a member of the Government, five years for the Attorney General and five years for somebody who served at the Secretary General level in a Department of the Government. The notion that that somehow debars people from the appropriateness of serving in judicial office is...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Barry Ward: I apologise if I misunderstood what the Senator said in terms of cross-contamination. I thought she had used that term. I absolutely agree with her in terms of what she said about local authority members. In fact, if one looks at any State board, for example, one of the things that will more often than not debar a person from membership is membership of local authority. That is another...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Barry Ward: I move amendment No. 15: In page 12, to delete lines 4 to 12. Section 15 deals with the nomination of members of the Judicial Council and their appointment as members of the commission. The section 12 provisions provide for the appointment, essentially of judges, to the proposed judicial appointments commission. There are three amendments in the group. Amendment No. 15 deals with...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Barry Ward: I thank the Minister of State for his response. I do not agree that there needs to be clarity about what we are asking the council to do. It is being asked to appoint two people. I do not believe any clarity beyond that is required. I reiterate the point I made earlier on the previous experience issue: the reality is that you just have judges; you do not have judges for former solicitors...