Jim Walsh (Fianna Fail)

I, like other Senators, have no objection to these. However, the response from the Chief Justice reminds me of the need to make the Judiciary subject to some sort of overarching body in terms of its conduct. The Minister might usefully investigate the system in operation in Massachusetts, where a commission oversees consistency of decisions and judicial conduct. Given some of the events that occurred here, this could be usefully investigated. Nobody wants political interference but it operates effectively there. I was personally impressed by the structure and the explanation we received from a member of the supreme court. We also met the Chief Justice of Massachusetts.