Tony Mulcahy (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Courts Service effectively manages the courts and all the cases that come through the courts. I know it is not involved directly in the cases. If the Director of Public Prosecutions, DPP, says someone must go to court and the Courts Service structures the court day for that hearing, is there a central database recording that process, from when the case is initiated to its result? How is that process recorded? Could anomalies appear in the system, for example, if a dangerous criminal did not get a custodial sentence and was back on the streets a couple of weeks later?