Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Deputy, with his legal hat on, will agree that it would be imprudent to rush down the road of introducing legislation based on a decision that might be overturned when challenged in the courts. We need certainty regarding the findings in the case before we can build any legal case to change the current appeals procedure. We hope that our appeal brings certainty. The Deputy might be more familiar with the situation than me but, given the additional resources that have been given to the Supreme Court, we hope that the case will be heard sooner than would be the norm. I appreciate that there is a time issue involved.

I believe that I have addressed most of the questions asked.