Seanad debates
Thursday, 26 June 2003
Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Bill 2002: Second Stage.
Some Members were upset by the proposal to provide for the dismissal of ordinary members of the commission. While I understand concerns about ill-founded allegations which may have detrimental effects on persons in public life, I cannot envisage circumstances in which either House could not remove a commission member which it had appointed if it formed the view that he or she was culpable of stated misbehaviour. Accordingly, the Bill provides that an ordinary member can be removed because of incapacity or stated misbehaviour, or to facilitate the effective functioning of the commission, but only on a resolution passed by the House which appointed him or her.
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