Mr. Micheál P. O'Higgins:

To pick up on what Ms Lucey has said, in some of our submissions, perhaps because of the questions that have emerged, we have dealt with High Court and Circuit Court level. In many ways the most important court in the land is the District Court. On the criminal side it is certainly the most important. It is the court where citizens of the country have the most interface and contact with the criminal justice system. Equally on the civil side, for people looking for debt collection, aggrieved at a dog barking next door or whatever it might be, the District Court is the most important because it is where the citizenry is in contact with the system most frequently.

We are trying to treat of these issues at superior court level but these points have even greater relevance and impact with respect the lower courts, where the business of the country is more frequently transacted with the citizenry of Ireland.