Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 2 March 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Nap Keeling:

I do not know if you can necessarily look between court jurisdictions, as such. Someone may want to stay at the Circuit Court rather than move to the High Court. It makes sense that if someone has been specialising in an area and an opportunity arises to get promoted into the same area in a different court or jurisdiction. I am not sure that is necessarily how it works, however. If you get promoted from Circuit Court to High Court judge, I am not sure if you have the choice as to where you are going to go at that point. I think the President of the High Court would probably like to have the say over that decision.

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