Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed)
Seanad Éireann — 2023-03-07
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Barry Ward (FG), Industrial and Commercial Panel

I want to make brief reference to the Long Title so that I can raise an issue on Report Stage. I want to mention three things that may be of interest to the Minister of State's officials in the context of possibly raising them on Report Stage. They are arguably semantic but they are important nonetheless. They relate to page 5 of the Bill and the Long Title. On line 13 I am suggesting that there should be a comma after the words "making" and "Commission", which would make it consistent with line 10, where those commas have been inserted. The second suggestion is to remove the word "the" as it first appears in line 17. The third suggestion is to insert a comma after "the Standards in Public Office Act 2001" in lines 29 to 30, which is an Oxford comma but notwithstanding that, I believe the insertion of a comma would improve the reading of the Long Title.

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Sitting date: 2023-03-07