AG consented to publishing judges’ pay memo online

JUSTICE Minister Alan Shatter’s treatment of the judiciary is “increasingly arrogant and hypocritical” and a “real threat” to judicial independence, Fianna Fáil has claimed.

The party’s justice spokesman, Dara Calleary, said Mr Shatter was “only too happy” to invoke the doctrine of separation of powers when it suited him and ignore it when it didn’t.

Mr Calleary was responding after the minister’s row with the judiciary over pay cuts escalated.