Mr. Seán Ó hUallacháin:

Deputy Jack Chambers' question is very pertinent. I do not think the High Court is used excessively. The statistics in our submission, taken from the Courts Service report of 2017, would indicate that approximately 100 odd cases, excluding child abduction which is a separate category, come before the High Court every year. At the moment in Dublin, there are up to seven dedicated District Court judges and three Circuit Court judges doing exclusively family law every day. That is up to ten judges a day in Dublin in the lower courts dealing with family law alone. There is also a higher emphasis on that in Cork. Around the rest of the country the District and Circuit Courts apply time to it whenever they can, whenever their lists are structured accordingly. Circuit Court judges do occasionally hear appeals but in terms of time and case load, no-----