Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 8 December 2016

Select Committee on Justice and Equality

Courts Bill 2016: Committee Stage

9:00 am

Photo of Jim O'CallaghanJim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

What is now being left in the Bill is that it is not really making provision for jurisdiction in the Circuit Court and the District Court. It is amending certain enactments concerning the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court and the District Court. If one looks at the contents of the Bill, sections 4 to 9, inclusive, which we have put in, are all amendments. Sections 1 to 3, inclusive, have been deleted or have fallen. As a result, I suggest that while I agree with the deletion proposed by the Minister of State I would also include the first two lines so that it would read, "An Act", and I would then take out "to make provision in relation to the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court and the District Court", and what the Minister of State has suggested, so that the new Title would be: "An Act to amend certain enactments concerning the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court and the District Court ... ", and leave the rest of it as is. Obviously, the Minister may want to include something about the amendment to the Courts (Supplemental Provisions) Act 1961 and the Legal Services Regulation Act 2015, if he wants to.

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