Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I predicted we would see actions in the courts because the appeals mechanism was to be taken away. I asked Mr. Walsh whether he saw a flaw in that system, or something to that effect, but he did not see that was the case when he was last in with us.

SHDs are being phased out. We saw a new one the other day because we had some interaction, which surprised me because I thought there was a hard deadline, but obviously not. If we look at the profile of SHDs and judicial reviews, we can see that it escalated once the opportunity for people to appeal was taken away. Does Mr. Walsh not see in retrospect that that changed the dynamic completely and that it was a major flaw? Would he not have alerted Government to that being a major problem?