LIVE: Varadkar to review appointments system following Máire Whelan controversy

New Fine Gael leader Leo Varadkar is facing questions on the judicial appointment for former AG Maire Whelan at his first Leaders Questions today.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has vowed to change the system of judicial appointments in the wake of the controversial decision to make Máire Whelan an Appeals Court judge, writes Elaine Loughlin

Mr Varadkar has admitted in the Dáil, that the controversy wasn't the type of issue he had hoped to begin his leadership with and pledged that there would be no future scandals around judicial appointments.