The Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has said that the objections by eight former attorneys general to the proposed reforms of Oireachtas investigations and the judges’ pay referendum shows that "there is a bit of an old boy's network" present in the legal profession.

EIGHT former Irish attorneys general have voiced collectively their strong opposition to the Government’s proposal to amend the Constitution to give the Oireachtas special powers of investigation.

WE are strongly opposed to the current proposals to amend the Constitution for the following reasons.