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- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Feb 2019)
David Norris: Does the Attorney General not sit at Cabinet?
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Feb 2019)
David Norris: I thank Senator McDowell for the correction. It is utterly ludicrous that a person who is not a member of the Government but is an ex officiofunctionary of the State and sits at Cabinet meetings side by side with the Taoiseach and the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade and so on may not provide the Cabinet with this information. I am glad I am not the Attorney General as I would find it...
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Feb 2019)
David Norris: I would be led away in handcuffs? That would be splendid. I would top the poll in the Trinity constituency again. Arrested by the Government - my God, that would give them something to think about.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Feb 2019)
David Norris: Yes. I could not agree more with the Acting Chairman. I wonder could I have a quorum.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Feb 2019)
David Norris: I was just mentioning the fact referred to by Senator McDowell.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Feb 2019)
David Norris: Oh, how terribly kind. I thank the Senator. Reference was made to four, five and six names on the long list. There might not be that number, however. There might be only three. There is no suggestion that there has to be four, five or six.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Feb 2019)
David Norris: Three is the maximum and, therefore, there is nothing to suggest whatever that there could be four, five or six on the long list. Supposing the commission were sufficiently bloody-minded, there would be nothing in the Bill, I believe, to stop it from putting the same three names back again. The Government could ask for three names but there is nothing to say they should not be the same...
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Feb 2019)
David Norris: I would like to tease out the astonishing absurdity of this situation. The Minister has said that in a situation where the Government found the first three names unsatisfactory, it could ask for another three, and it if found those unsatisfactory, it could ask for another three and so on until the end of the list is reached.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Feb 2019)
David Norris: How does the Senator know that?
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Feb 2019)
David Norris: There might be.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Feb 2019)
David Norris: Senator McDowell can think what he likes. I think there is a long list. Like Humpty Dumpty, what I think goes. Words mean what I mean them to mean, no more and no less. The Government could indicate it is not satisfied with the three names provided and ask the commission to produce another three and so on until the end of the list has been reached. There is nothing to prevent a speeding...
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Feb 2019)
David Norris: Logically, it does.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Feb 2019)
David Norris: I know it.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Feb 2019)
David Norris: The Senator is demanding the interruption.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Feb 2019)
David Norris: Nonsense. I refer the Senator to the Man Booker Prize long list and shortlist.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Feb 2019)
David Norris: If it mentions a shortlist, that implies the existence of a long list.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Feb 2019)
David Norris: I agree on that point.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Feb 2019)
David Norris: Except that it undermines the commission.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Feb 2019)
David Norris: The commission might put forward only two names, A and B.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Feb 2019)
David Norris: I thought three was the maximum.