Michael McDowell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No 91c:

In page 31, between lines 18 and 19, to insert the following:

“45. Nothing in this Chapter or Chapter 4 shall operate to prevent the Government, where it considers that it is necessary or expedient to do so by reason of urgency or for other sufficient reason, to advise the President to appoint a person to fill a vacancy in a judicial office to which section 44 applies without any request being made by the Minister to the Commission in accordance with that section.”.

This amendment is designed to fill a lacuna in the legislation, which is that there is no provision at all for a timetable to be adhered to by the commission in making its decisions. It seems to me-----