Commission proposes changes to cut inquiry costs

SWEEPING changes to keep down potentially huge costs of future public inquiries have been proposed by the Law Reform Commission.

In a consultation document, the body branded some of the tribunals currently running as a “very extravagant measure of constitutional justice...granted...where it was not legally or constitutionally required”.

The commission said the Government, acting on foot of Oireachtas approval, should be given the power to wind up a tribunal where it has been sitting for some time and seemed “unlikely to bear fruit”.