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- Seanad: Criminal Law (Extraterritorial Jurisdiction) Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jan 2019)
David Norris: Who are you to want it very brief?
- Seanad: Criminal Law (Extraterritorial Jurisdiction) Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jan 2019)
David Norris: That is a very reasonable point.
- Seanad: Criminal Law (Extraterritorial Jurisdiction) Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jan 2019)
David Norris: Are we taking all Stages now?
- Seanad: Criminal Law (Extraterritorial Jurisdiction) Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jan 2019)
David Norris: That does not leave much time for the Senator’s amendment.
- Seanad: Criminal Law (Extraterritorial Jurisdiction) Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jan 2019)
David Norris: The Minister said he was going to give some consideration to matters raised by Senator McDowell. If we are going on to Report Stage now, I do not see how he can.
- Seanad: Criminal Law (Extraterritorial Jurisdiction) Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jan 2019)
David Norris: I understand. I appreciate the clarification.
- Seanad: Criminal Law (Extraterritorial Jurisdiction) Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jan 2019)
David Norris: No, only to say this a very important-----
- Seanad: Criminal Law (Extraterritorial Jurisdiction) Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jan 2019)
David Norris: I beg your pardon. Do people expect me to depart from Platform 12 and a half for Hogwarts? This is important legislation. I spoke effectively to the domestic violence and violence against women legislation and gained certain concessions in having amendments taken on board. I am glad that the House did not hold up the Bill. It is appropriate that Senator McDowell asked the questions he...
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (30 Jan 2019)
David Norris: We are only discussing amendment No. 86a. Is that correct? If so, I will reserve my comments.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (30 Jan 2019)
David Norris: I was wondering about that.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (30 Jan 2019)
David Norris: I will address amendment No. 86b which is the most crucial amendment. It revolves around the issue of constitutionality, a question Senator McDowell has raised on several occasions, as have I, in the hope the President of Ireland will refer this legislation to the Supreme Court. The question of the presumption of constitutionality is an important one and crucial to our role in the Houses of...
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (30 Jan 2019)
David Norris: That is very hopeful.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (30 Jan 2019)
David Norris: Would that not be wonderful?
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (30 Jan 2019)
David Norris: The Minister is making a very interesting point. If we do not get to it, would it not be more sensible to table the amendment now, rather than in some hypothetical future Report Stage debate? If the Minister is to be taken at his word, that he is amenable to addressing two specific concerns which have been raised and which he highlighted during the debate, I will outline them. Reference...
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (30 Jan 2019)
David Norris: I am hardly going to talk about saucepans which are for another day entirely. These are the questions I want to put to the Minister about the amendments. Have they been drafted? If the Minister says "Yes" and that he intends to introduce them on Report Stage, at what stage are they now? I note that he is shaking his head; presumably, therefore, they have not been drafted. Perhaps he...
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (30 Jan 2019)
David Norris: The Minister has already agreed with Senator McDowell that they are necessary.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (30 Jan 2019)
David Norris: The Minister agrees with everyone in the House.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (30 Jan 2019)
David Norris: Certainly, absolutely. The second point concerns the progress of the amendments. Do they have to be placed before the Cabinet to be approved beforehand? That is simply a technical question which I am sure, without any prejudice to anything, the Minister can answer. Do they have to be placed before the Cabinet to be approved? If that is the case, when does the Minister expect it to...
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (30 Jan 2019)
David Norris: It is all part of the context and could not be clearer.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (30 Jan 2019)
David Norris: That is exactly what I am discussing. What I have been saying is that if these issues had not been raised by Senators, there would have been talk of such amendments during the course of the 74 or 75 hours of debate. That is something the Minister condemns, as does his colleague. I am not sure how I should put it, but I think it is the most neutral word I can find.