David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank Mr. O'Driscoll. I travelled to New York a number of years ago and there were similar issues over there. They talked about the broken windows initiative and so forth. I visited community courts. Mr. O'Driscoll mentioned courts. I know some work was done in Ireland quite a while ago on community courts whereby an incident such as shoplifting occurs and the person is apprehended and they are in court the following day. There is no delay. Here it seems to take forever. Very often these people would get a community sanction or whatever but it is dealt with straight away. Is that something Mr. O'Driscoll is aware of? There is a community court in Red Hook in midtown. I know we are probably veering into the justice committee's remit but this has a huge impact on business and is why I wanted to have this hearing today.