Peter Burke (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I need to judge how the Courts Service is managed and how it escalates concerns. I accept that use of the poor box is at the discretion of judges, but the court in Ennis accounted for €3,750 while the court in Tralee accounted for almost €500,000. A court in a small rural area is allocating more than the court in Tallaght, which is in the Dublin metropolitan region. That would look highly unusual to a person with an audit background. It is a matter I would have expected to be escalated to the highest level of the organisation.