Sinn Féin’s Pa Daly has been accused of asking the High Court to intervene in an unprecedented way with the inner workings of the executive branch of government.
The Attorney General claims the Kerry TD’s challenge to the attendance and participation of so-called ‘Super Junior Ministers’ should be resisted.
Super Juniors have been around since the rainbow coalition of 1994.
This government has four, including two from the Regional Independents Group.
But Sinn Féin TD, Pa Daly, claims they shouldn’t be allowed to sit at the cabinet table, nor should they have any input in government meetings.
He believes the practice is “deeply problematic and unconstitutional.”
In defence of the government’s position, Attorney General, Rossa Fanning SC, argues that Deputy Daly is asking the court to write in a new constitutional provision.
He accused him of asking the court to intervene in an unprecedented way with the inner workings of the executive branch of government.
He said the proceedings are misconceived on a number of respects, and urged the court to resist what he described as an attempt to conscript the judiciary on what is a political contest being played as an away fixture down in the Four Courts.
