James Lawless (Kildare North, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It is a common theme with which the committee is very familiar. Across the board, on a range of topics, we have come to the same conclusion, which is that among a number or other matters, we have an insufficient number of judges. Many of the issues we talking about today and other issues we have previously discussed have the common feature that if we had more judges in the system, we would have more courtrooms running in parallel, fewer delays, greater processing, throughput and efficiency and, ultimately, better services and justice for people in the system.