34 complaints about judges in first three months of act

'Every individual judge in Ireland is now for the first time subject to a statutory regulatory system of judicial standards and conduct, investigation and reprimand', report said

The absence of judicial oversight was highlighted following the attendance of newly appointed Supreme Court judge Seamus Woulfe at a hotel function during covid restrictions in August 2020, commonly known as ‘Golfgate’. File picture: Gareth Chaney/ Collins 

The new judicial complaints body received 34 cases within the first three months of being set up, figures show.

The Judicial Conduct Committee began taking complaints about judges from the public on October 3, 2022, after the Justice Minister signed a commencement order under the Judicial Council Act 2019.