Pa Daly (Kerry, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

If someone today wanted a trial date in the Circuit Criminal Court in Dublin, he or she would get one in 2025. The waiting period in Dundalk is also bad. In Kerry, someone would be waiting for longer than two years to get a trial date. Of course, that might differ in circumstances where a child is involved, for example. Someone would be waiting 15 to 18 months in the Central Criminal Court unless young children were involved. In recent years, we have heard a great deal about delays in judicial reviews of planning issues. The judicial review list is still slow, with people waiting 12 months for a hearing date. They have to wait a number of months more for decisions because the judges writing the judgments are in court all the time. If we are trying to protect communities and support victims, having people waiting so long for trial dates is unacceptable. Will the increase in the number of judges have any impact on this? It is a major problem around the country.