David Norris (Independent) | Oireachtas source

That is fair enough. Well it is not really but we will move on. The reason I said the Minister might be disposed to accept this is that he spoke very well about the need to consider the establishment of schools for judges and so on, such as there are on the Continent of Europe. It seemed to me that this might be in line with that kind of thing. The Minister wants to get the best out of the people he puts on this commission and, in order to get the best out of them, he should give them training. If one picks people without any legal background whatever, while they may very well have business acumen, or knowledge about human rights or about Travellers, they might not have knowledge of how to deploy these talents in this particular forum. It is a useful amendment but, as I said, it would be better if it referred specifically to the lay members.