Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Thank you very much, Chairman. I was simply letting you know that I had to go away. I need someone from the legal profession, whether I like it. I am sorry that I have to rush out but I will thoroughly read all the submissions so that we are better informed. I have much to learn about what it is all about.

I have one question. The Bar Council briefing suggests the council finds it hard to understand, and does not see the logic in, the State reinventing the wheel by coming up with an elaborate new organisation when we could simply do it using the courts model, which would cost far less and would seem to be far less cumbersome. Why does the council believe that the Government has come up with the idea to invent a new large entity rather than go down the route suggested by the council? Why did the Government do that?