Judicial pay amendment signed by President

PRESIDENT Michael D Higgins last night confirmed he had signed the constitutional amendment giving the Government the ability to cut judicial pay.

Almost 80% of voters supported the 29th amendment on judges’ pay in the referendum, held on the same day as the presidential election.

On that day every constituency voted in favour of the changes to judges’ pay; 354,000 voted against, with more than 1.3 million people in favour.