Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate that another committee is about to start. I thank all the witnesses. Their submissions were very comprehensive.

I have two brief questions for Dr. Coulter that may have been answered. I spoke to Dr. Conor O'Mahony when he was here a couple of weeks ago. I remember studying family law in Trinity. I recall the issue of the in camerarule. Reference was made to a dedicated reporting body. I support that. How would it be structured? Who would run it? What would it entail? How could we make it workable? Would it be through the court system or Department? Would it involve separate legislation? I am interested in knowing the detail on the dedicated reporting body because we need to move on it. It is holding a lot of this back.

I have a separate point, on the Bar Council of Ireland. Reference was made to the High Court and how it deals with complexity. An individual who knows more about family law than I do said an excess of High Court time is spent on family law at times. Could the delegates comment on that? Is there a way of displacing many of the cases back more to court rules?