Jim O'Keeffe (Cork South West, Fine Gael)

The issue of judicial conduct has been under discussion recently and there is a proposal to establish a judicial council to provide effective remedies for complaints about judicial misbehaviour, including lay participation in the investigation of complaints. What is the position on that Bill? Before the Taoiseach replies, I remind him that the 2004 legislation programme provided that this Bill should come before the Oireachtas in 2005. We have not yet seen it.

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