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- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
David Norris: One can appeal against planning permissions.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
David Norris: PwC was one of the auditors of the Bank of Ireland, and was discussed -----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
David Norris: -----at the banking inquiry. It is totally discredited.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
David Norris: She repented on her deathbed.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
David Norris: That is a bloody good thing.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
David Norris: Do. Bravo.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
David Norris: Not the Supreme Court; a judicial review.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
David Norris: How many centuries has the House been here?
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
David Norris: I did not know it was such a wonderfully historic building. Three centuries of Seanad Éireann. They should print a stamp.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
David Norris: And the other unions are just queuing up-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
David Norris: In the meantime, could the Leader raise it with the Minister?
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
David Norris: I will. I thank the Leader.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Feb 2019)
David Norris: I have never heard of this business of reverse canvassing. Could the Minister confirm that this is a peculiar coinage of his own?If not, could he give us a standard dictionary definition of it because if the Minister does not accept this amendment, it seems to me it is one of the areas where this Bill may be impugned for a lack of constitutionality? I would be glad if President Michael D....
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Feb 2019)
David Norris: Is "reverse canvassing" the Minister's coinage?
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Feb 2019)
David Norris: I will make a couple of points. First, I do not agree with my distinguished colleague, Senator McDowell, in objecting to the word "job". Being a judge is a job. They get paid for it and they do it. It is a job. Let us not be snobbish about it. We do not all live in Rathmines. Second, the Minister has described this as undesirable. In what way is it undesirable? Can he give reasons...
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Feb 2019)
David Norris: The Government is not doing it.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Feb 2019)
David Norris: Asked by whom?
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Feb 2019)
David Norris: So the Attorney General could advise on an application but the Government cannot.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Feb 2019)
David Norris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Feb 2019)
David Norris: The more I look at this legislation, the more I think of Alice in Wonderlandand Alice Through the Looking Glassbecause it is patently absurd. It envisages a situation whereby the commission has knowledge which the Government is prevented from accessing. To pile nonsense on top of nonsense, an ex officiomember of the Government, the Attorney General-----