David Norris (Independent) | Oireachtas source

No, it is not, I am afraid. Amendment No. 23 is deliberately intended to place the laypersons in a minority because it is nonsensical to have laypersons in the majority on this commission. Those two amendments both fit in with the recommendations of the GRECO report. The first one makes the chairperson the Chief Justice and the second one puts the laypersons into a minority. That is all that there is to it.