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Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2022
- Sponsor
- Minister for Justice
- Introduced
- 8 Apr 2022
- Last updated
- 11 Sep 2024
What this bill does AI · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
- Establishes Judicial Appointments Commission with 9 members (Chief Justice, Court Presidents, judges, Attorney General, lay members) to select and recommend candidates for judicial appointments based on merit.
- Commission must publish selection procedures and required knowledge/skills statements; recommendations shall consider gender balance, population diversity, and Irish language proficiency for State judgeships.
- Dissolves existing Judicial Appointments Advisory Board; creates Commission Office with Director; provides funding via Courts Service; restricts Freedom of Information access to selection records.
Stage timeline What do these stages mean?
- First Stage 33rd Dáil8 Apr 2022
- Second Stage 33rd Dáil8 Apr 2022
- Committee Stage 33rd Dáil28 Apr 2022
- Report Stage 33rd Dáil29 Jun 2022
- Fifth Stage 33rd Dáil29 Jun 2022
- Second Stage 26th Seanad29 Jun 2022
- Committee Stage 26th Seanad5 Oct 2022
- Report Stage 26th Seanad7 Mar 2023
- Fifth Stage 26th Seanad4 Jul 2023
- Enacted8 Dec 2023
Debates
- From the Seanad 4 Oct 2023
- Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage 4 Jul 2023
- Report Stage (Resumed) 17 May 2023
- Report Stage (Resumed) 18 Apr 2023
- Report Stage 28 Mar 2023
- Committee Stage (Resumed) 7 Mar 2023
- Committee Stage (Resumed) 25 Jan 2023
- Committee Stage (Resumed) 15 Nov 2022
- Committee Stage (Resumed) 26 Oct 2022
- Committee Stage (Resumed) 25 Oct 2022
- Committee Stage 18 Oct 2022
- Second Stage 5 Oct 2022
- Report and Final Stages 29 Jun 2022
- Second Stage (Resumed) 28 Apr 2022
- Second Stage 27 Apr 2022
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