Ms Angela Denning:

The population of Tralee needs four courtrooms. It needs all the ancillary services we have discussed, such as extra consultation rooms, dedicated family law areas with the family court Bill coming, victim support suites and video link rooms. All of that is required. The footprint is the challenge in Tralee. Our absolute preference is always to maintain the existing courthouse where we can. It is the preference of the building committee, which makes the decisions on the prioritisation of works and what works will be carried out. Where that is not possible we then try to avail of a town centre site where possible.