Charles Flanagan (Laois, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

All we are doing in section 19 is making perfectly clear the grounds for disqualification and setting out a range of persons who are ineligible to hold office. I do not believe it is inappropriate, notwithstanding what is contained in an earlier section, to state categorically that anybody who is struck off the roll of solicitors or who is disbarred by the benchers of the King's Inns is ineligible as a result.