Mary Fitzpatrick (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Senator Boyhan triggered an interesting discussion about the jurisdiction of the various courts. As a layperson, I am not familiar with the jurisdiction of the courts. When the witnesses are making a further submission to us, it would be helpful for the committee if they could give us a simple explainer on that. From what I have understood, the issue is not that there will not be an appeal, it is just that there will not be an appeal to the appeal.

It is proposed that there would not be the right to appeal to the Court of Appeal. There would be the right to appeal to the Supreme Court. It would be helpful to us to understand the legal context for those operational matters. If the witnesses could provide us with that information, it would be useful.