Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I understand Ms Denning is the Accounting Officer. She is making a differentiation between the Courts Service and the Exchequer but I am afraid that we will not make that differentiation. This is because Ms Denning will be looking for the Exchequer to fund, for example, the refurbishment of courthouses and so on and that is part of where the money comes from. It strikes me that we are here again with a topic that arises weekly with various Departments and agencies. We do things backwards. We create the problem and then go back to try to fix it. Instead of doing the proper regulatory impact assessment to begin with, it looks like there is a four-stage process for the fine from the Courts Service's perspective but nobody has ownership of it after that, whereas somebody did before, with a garda following up on it. Does Ms Denning have immediate solutions?