Mr. Deaglán Ó Briain:

I would like to comment on the issue of juries. The Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth is progressing legislation on the position of people with disabilities serving on juries.

The committee might consider recommending that the Courts Service consider ways to make juries more diverse. As the juries list is effectively derived from the list of Dáil electors, there would be real difficulty in capturing the type of information the committee and witnesses have been discussing by obliging people to disclose their personal characteristics when they register to vote. There is a real GDPR issue and a question of proportionality with that. The Department would welcome a recommendation that the Courts Service and the Department look at how we could make juries more diverse.