Seanad debates
Tuesday, 10 December 2019
Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed)
1:30 pm
Ivana Bacik (Independent) | Oireachtas source
I am sorry the Minister has dismissed the argument with such a brief turn of phrase. Senator McDowell put the case for it very strongly and, as he said, there are serious implications for the definitions of barrister and solicitor in this legislation. The Minister's amendments Nos. 51 and 52, which are now decoupled from amendment No. 13, only refer to the definition of practising barrister in respect of a particular section. That is not the same as my amendment, which is a far more general application. It seeks to import the definition from the 2015 Act to this legislation and the Act of 1961-----
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