Programme for Government
Dail Éireann — 2022-11-23
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Paul Murphy (PBP), Dublin South-West

The programme for Government refers to the need for court reform. What action is being taken to prevent judges from engaging in sexual harassment of women who are before them? I have raised multiple times with the Taoiseach the case of Kerry judge, James O'Connor, who used his position to disgustingly prey upon vulnerable women who were before him on multiple occasions. I know at least one of those victims has been doing everything she possibly can to get justice, but the Judicial Council has told her that it cannot deal with the case because of when the incidents happened and because the judge is now retired. She has tried time and again to get the Garda to take this issue seriously, but seemingly with no luck. What is she to do? What actions are being taken by the Government to ensure this sort of thing cannot happen again?

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Sitting date: 2022-11-23