Opposition party leaders are to seek independent legal advice on possible ways to try to break the impasse over the position of the Supreme Court Justice, Seamus Woulfe.
Further discussions are expected between parties next week, after a meeting in Government Buildings yesterday evening failed to find a way forward.
The row relates to Mr Justice Woulfe’s attendance at a golf dinner in Clifden, Co Galway in August, despite Covid-19 public health guidelines placing limits on indoor gatherings.
The Chief Justice, Frank Clarke, wrote to Judge Woulfe earlier this month and told him he should resign.
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In a statement, the Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald said it is not yet clear that the Oireachtas has a role in finding a resolution to the current situation
Labour leader Alan Kelly said the party leaders’ meeting last night did not have Attorney General advice, so the opposition parties would have to seek their own legal advice.
People Before Profit TD Richard Boyd Barrett said members of Government were being cautious about what they were saying at the meeting.
He said there was concern that any impeachment process would be a long drawn out process.
The Social Democrats co leader Catherine Murphy said she was not convinced that the threshold of stated misbehaviour required to remove a judge had been met.
This was a view also expressed by Mattie McGrath of the rural independents alliance, who described the controversy as a tiff between judges that should be dealt with in the courts, not by politicians.
Opposition party leaders are to seek independent legal advice on possible ways to try to break the impasse over the position of the Supreme Court Justice, Seamus Woulfe.
