◎ OireachtasDB

Dail Éireann · 2020-11-17

Appointment of Chairperson of Standards in Public Office Commission: Motion

FF Michael McGrath · Cork South-Central · Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform

Party shown is the one held on 2020-11-17, frozen at parse time — not the speaker's party today.

Jump to this contribution Download this speech (.txt)

Summary of this debate

Auto-generated

I move: That, pursuant to subsection (2A) (inserted by section 2 of the Standards in Public Office Act 2001 (No. 31 of 2001)), of section 21 of the Ethics in Public Office Act 1995 (No. 22 of 1995), Dáil Éireann recommends the appointment of Mr. Justice Garrett Sheehan, a former Judge of the High Court and the Court of Appeal, by the President on the advice of the Government to be the Chairperson of the Standards in Public Office Commission.

Built by scoring every sentence in the debate on how distinctive its language is, then quoting the highest-scoring ones back word for word and in the order spoken. Nothing is paraphrased or invented — if a sentence appears here, it was said in the chamber. Drawn from 80 words across 1 contributions by 1 speakers.

Most used terms in this debate

How often each word appears across the whole debate, ranked by how distinctive it is to this debate rather than common to all parliamentary language.

garrett 1
office 3
sheehan 1
standards 2
ethics 1
court 2
section 2
inserted 1
recommends 1
public 3
subsection 1
pursuant 1

The full debate

All 1 contribution, start to finish, in the order they were made. The one you came here for is highlighted.

FF Michael McGrath this contribution

I move:

That, pursuant to subsection (2A) (inserted by section 2 of the Standards in Public Office Act 2001 (No. 31 of 2001)), of section 21 of the Ethics in Public Office Act 1995 (No. 22 of 1995), Dáil Éireann recommends the appointment of Mr. Justice Garrett Sheehan, a former Judge of the High Court and the Court of Appeal, by the President on the advice of the Government to be the Chairperson of the Standards in Public Office Commission.

Download this debate (.txt)