Gerald Nash (Labour) | Oireachtas source

I was about to call the Leas-Chathaoirleach "Minister". Maybe some day. I cannot support any notion that a guillotine would be introduced for this legislation. The Judicial Appointments Commission Bill is probably the most flawed legislation that I have ever seen come into either House in my eight years' experience in these Houses and in my many years of watching and studying how politics is conducted in these Chambers. It is high time that the Minister, Deputy Ross, focused on his own brief. Heaven knows there are far too many pressing issues in his own brief that he seems to be practically ignoring because of his unrelenting, ridiculous focus on this legislation. Not only do the majority of Members of this House, in my opinion, disagree with it but many important international organisations have expressed their concerns with it. It is quite likely that many, if not most, aspects of this legislation are deeply unconstitutional. We have an obligation as elected Members-----