Seanad debates

Tuesday, 3 July 2018

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage

 

12:30 pm

Photo of Michael McDowellMichael McDowell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I do not identify with the use of the phrase "minority groups" and "the majority group" as if there is some big herd of people who constitute the majority group of Irish society and who can be identified and remembered by a committee when it is making appointments.

Then we come to socioeconomic status. If a person had been practising for many years in the Law Library or as a solicitor or if a person is a senior academic-----

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