Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Apologies for my absence earlier. I will catch up on anything I missed. I also apologise if my question has been asked and answered. I will not ask the witnesses to repeat themselves; they can just refer me to the transcript. It concerns a point that was made about cases being taken, and specifically, the time cases take. I think the word used was "decades". There is an article within the proposal for the directive that includes a civil liability regime, which is important. However, there are a lot of barriers now, including cases taking decades, access to cash, the lack of clear supports and all these other factors. What is it that we can do to strengthen this directive to ensure that we make it more accessible for those who may need to access the judicial remedy? If cases take decades and cost a lot of money, what can we do to ensure that by using this directive as a vehicle, we can make it simpler or easier for people to access justice?