There is growing political frustration at the apparent powerlessness of the Government and the Oireachtas to compel those involved in the Sheedy affair to explain their actions.
The Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Equality and Women's Rights will meet to discuss other business today but is expected first to consider how to proceed in the Sheedy affair.
At some stage the committee is likely to invite the two former judges at the centre of the controversy over the re-listing of the Sheedy case, Mr Hugh O'Flaherty and Mr Cyril Kelly, to appear before it to explain why they acted as they did.
However, spokesmen from the main ail parties agree that if the judges do not attend, politicians are unlikely to establish why the case was re-listed in the way it was, and why Sheedy had the remaining three years of a four-year sentence suspended at a hearing of which the DPP was not notified.
This is because the committee does not have the power to compel the former judges to attend. The committee's chairman, Mr Eoin Ryan TD, had discussions with the Minister for Justice, Mr O'Donoghue, yesterday on how the committee should proceed.
Meanwhile a report by the Chief State Solicitor on the procedures that his office followed in the case is to be considered by the Attorney General this morning before being laid before the Dail. There was no criticism of the Chief State Solicitor's office in either the Hamilton report or the Department of Justice report on the case.
In addition, the report of a working group chaired by the Supreme Court judge, Mrs Justice Denham, which is considering how a future commission to run the courts would operate, is also likely to be published by the end of this week.
One of the recommendations of that report is understood to be the establishment of a committee responsible for dealing with issues such as judicial ethics and judicial misconduct.
Mrs Justice Denham completed her report last November 28th, and Mr Ahern told the Dail yesterday that the Department of Justice was making arrangements to publish it.
Mr Ahern said the Dail committee should continue attempts to find the answers to the remaining questions arising from the Sheedy case. The committee already has a substantial amount of evidence to work with, he said, including the reports from the Chief Justice and the Department of Justice.