Jim Walsh (Fianna Fail)

There should be a judicial commission and were such a commission comprised exclusively of judges, I would have no objection. I refer to instances in which judges step out of line, of which there have been examples. The Oireachtas has conducted inquiries to deal with such issues and such inquiries should have had a structure other than the cumbersome model under which my colleague, Senator O'Donovan, was obliged to labour in one instance. It was a very difficult task. There should be a mechanism for dealing with this issue. When judges breach the privileges they enjoy, accountability to their peers should be an important component of the structures incorporated in the judicial system.