A new advisory committee will be set up to help identify eligible and qualified candidates interested in the post of Chief Justice under plans brought to Cabinet by Minister for Justice Helen McEntee.
The committee will examine the suitability of the candidates and make recommendations to the Minister for Justice. The committee will be made up of a senior member of the judiciary, the attorney general and a lay member. It would be required to establish its own procedures for inviting and assessing expressions of interest from applicants, including serving judges.
Ms McEntee also told Ministers she intends to later this week publish an expert scoping report into community safety and well-being inThe Drogheda report, carried out by, the former heard of the Probation Service, was commissioned following the murder last year of a young man from the Co Louth town. Separately, the Minister also updated the Cabinet on plans to establish a gambling regulator. Draft legislation will now be published later this year as part of this process.
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