Jerry Buttimer (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

On that point, to the non-legal eye from the outside, such as Deputy Ó Caoláin watching on television, it seems more often than not there is this policy of defend and deny, where one gets to the steps of the courthouse and, suddenly, there is an eleventh-hour solution where the injured person and family is put through an inordinate amount of stress and tribulation which should not need to happen. Surely that is part of what we should be trying to change as well.