Gerard Craughwell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I said it to the Minister for Justice and Equality last week. I will move tomorrow morning at the Order of Business that we set aside any further debate on this, and that we debate the GRECO report properly, rather than pursue this Bill which nobody in here wants. Everybody wants to see judges appointed, and I understand there are difficulties progressing that right now. At the end of the day, the Bill that we are pushing through here will come back to haunt us. While the Minister might be somewhat annoyed about the way the legislation is going through, I have not seen that on the Minister's face, in fairness to him. He is sitting there and he is progressing the legislation as best he can, but I have seen annoyance on the face of some of his colleagues. At the end of the day, when this Bill is passed, it will come back to haunt us. That is what we are looking at. It is the Minister's Bill. We are asking him to take amendments as they come up on Committee and Report Stages. We will ask him to think about them as they go through. Everyone wants a fair, open and transparent system, but we want a bit of honesty. We want to know precisely who spoke to whom, when they spoke and the outcome of those discussions and deliberations. The Judiciary is telling GRECO, "Nobody spoke to us. Here is our view."