Joe Costello (Dublin Central, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Is there no way of dealing with such matters now without the jury having to be empanelled, with all the associated time for that? There was a very high-profile case recently - I will not get into the details - that went on for 64 or 65 days and the jury was there for all of it. For the first 60 days, the matters could not go before the jury. How can a position like that arise? Ordinary citizens had to provide their time on a voluntary basis but only a couple of days of the hearing were relevant to them in that case. Surely even without the new criminal justice Bill mentioned-----