Seanad debates

Thursday, 4 April 2019

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed)

 

10:30 am

Photo of David NorrisDavid Norris (Independent) | Oireachtas source

So there will be one gap. It seems that if the criteria are satisfied in the first instance, they should remain so. Therefore, it is a redundant exercise to put the candidates through this nonsense again. It might suggest to the onlooker that a judge has been dropped because, in the intervening two months or whatever, he has engaged in some kind of nefarious activity that is regarded as reprehensible and that has excluded him from consideration. I would be very interested in hearing the Minister’s response and discovering whether he can clear up the grammatical confusion that is quite clearly evident. It could be cured by the inclusion of commas and the word "to".

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