James Lawless (Kildare North, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I will take this opportunity to make a point while we are waiting for Ms McLoughlin-Burke to come back in. In the ICCL's submission, to which Deputy Daly alluded, there are some interesting statistics which show that the Circuit Court and the District Court are the workhorses of the system, with the vast majority of cases going through them. If I understood the submission correctly, it states that the rules stipulated training and familiarity with procedures for judges of the superior courts. That recommendation or requirement was not there for, dare I say it, the lower courts. Perhaps it should be, given the volume of cases coming through.