Order of Business interruptions
Members exchanged procedural and personal interruptions while the Chair tried to keep order, with no new substantive issue arising until Senator Horkan resumed on the sitting schedule and judicial appointments debate.
That is up to other Members. They are after gestating some parts.
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That is rubbish. We are dealing seriously with a ridiculous Bill which the Leader's party does not support.
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Senator Norris's behaviour yesterday was play acting.
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The Senator's behaviour yesterday-----
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I did not interrupt Senator Norris.
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-----was such that he might have been on stage in the Gaiety as the dame in a pantomime.
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This is a discussion about the Order of Business, which is not necessarily what everyone talks about on the Order of Business. Yesterday we resumed on amendment No. 22 of 111 amendments to the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill and we finished at 10 p.m., not having concluded the debated on amendment No. 29. Therefore, 83 amendments have yet to be dealt with. It was helpful yesterday to have a sos between 6 p.m. and 6. 30 p.m. I ask the Leader to amend the Order of Business to include a small sos to allow the Minister and his officials, as much as anybody else-----