Coughlan to consider laws for filling VEC role
The minister made her comments following a controversial vote on Co Cork VEC a few weeks ago, which resulted in a political appointee taking a post traditionally reserved for the Church of Ireland.
Tom Sheahan, a former Mayor of County Cork who lost his county council seat at the last local elections, was appointed to the VEC after the Fine Gael party backed him in a vote against the Church of Ireland representative Canon George Salter.
