Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Should we not have the best assessment and that debate?

I am heartened by some of the responses Ms Denning has given. It always struck me as an extraordinary waste of resources for prisoners to be transported around the country for momentary appearances in court. Ms Denning is saying that practice has been substantially reduced during Covid. Is that to be a permanent feature now? It is an extraordinary inconvenience for everybody, as well as cost, to do that. A similar situation applies in relation to calling 200 potential jurors when the vast bulk of them will not be used. Will the lessons we have learned during Covid be mainstreamed in future to ensure we do not have such obvious waste?