Seanad debates

Wednesday, 21 September 2011

That is a quick summary of one amendment which incorporates a series of proposed changes. It is not a sufficient response to my proposals to say that it is extremely unlikely that a Government will act against the spirit of the constitutional amendment and target judges' pay in an arbitrary or unethical way. As I have already mentioned, constitutional design is about setting the parameters of governance in such a way as to ensure that these kinds of rupturing scenarios, such as mala fides on the part of a future Government, simply cannot arise, notwithstanding the good intentions of the Minister as set out in proposed legislation to follow this referendum. On that basis I ask the Minister to consider carefully the changes I have proposed and I look forward to his response.

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