Seanad debates
Tuesday, 18 June 2019
Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed)
2:30 pm
David Norris (Independent) | Oireachtas source
I always listen to my distinguished colleague, Senator McDowell, with the greatest of respect, especially since he was the Minster for Justice, Attorney General, a distinguished senior counsel and all the rest of it. That said, I wait to be persuaded of this amendment and I am not 100% sure which way I am going to vote. I look forward to Senator McDowell's further contributions to elucidate this because what other questions is the commission going to ask? What else could it ask? It would be interesting to know how somebody would decide on a constitutional matter of interpretation or amendment because, as Senator McDowell said, the Government might want to put somebody on the Bench who was of a conservative or liberal point of view. This would be one way of finding out.
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