Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I will deal with the first question. What I made very clear in my answer is that there is a process in place if a judge, any judge, wants to express an interest in a judicial vacancy. Under previous Governments there was not a process in place. There is now a process in place, and if any judge wants to express an interest at any point, not just when he or she knows there are vacancies but in anticipation of vacancies, a judge can make his or her interest-----

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