Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 6:

In page 5, between lines 1 and 2, to insert the following:“(5) Where the court adjourns proceedings under this section, the court may, where it considers it appropriate to do so, direct that the proceedings stand adjourned to another venue within the same circuit of the Circuit Court.”.

I have tabled this amendment to address a possible shortcoming in the original draft of the Bill. Normally a case before a Circuit Court is adjourned until the next sitting in the same location. This could have implications for the two month time limit in section 2. This amendment will enable the court to take account of the next sitting dates within the circuit and allow the court to hear the case, if necessary, in a different location.