Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

It would be the Garda, or if a judge were being appointed to deal with criminal cases and had not been dealing with them in the past, the Courts Service could raise the matter. Typically, these would be the kinds of features that it would not be either cost effective or useful to remove at a later stage. They really would not have any other use. It would be a case of taking them away just for the sake of taking them away.