Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed)
Seanad Éireann — 2022-11-15
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Michael McDowell (IND), National University of Ireland

I think it does, in fact.
On a slightly different point, in relation to subsection (4), the Judicial Council appoints a substitute member if one of its elected members is looking for promotion or whatever. Are they free to nominate any member to be a member of the commission? For instance, if the person for whom the substitution is made was originally a barrister, can he or she appoint a judge who was originally a solicitor as the substitute or does that balance still apply as between solicitor judges and barrister judges?

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