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

Very often, when we start looking at the financial side of things, other things turn up, and poor processes can be one of those . We can make a real difference in relation to the change in how things happen, and often that is where recommendations come in. There may well be a variety of categories that could generally capture the reasons cases are struck out, but if we are going to have confidence in a system, people have to feel that there is more than just an arbitrary reason for a case being struck out and that it is not because a person happens to know a particular individual or something like that. It does merit some explanation as to why it can be the case that no explanation is given so as to help us understand it better. Obviously, the separation of powers exists, and the striking out of cases is happening in the courts, but we at least need to understand why it is happening.