Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

We will introduce a scheme using text messages to allow us to provide that facility. Again, it took longer than I would have liked. It was a legislative change. We originally hoped to do it through secondary legislation. The Attorney General advised, as I recall, that in fact it would require primary legislation so it took longer with the drafting of the legislation. Our system does need to speed up, that is our legal system and our drafting system. That is not a criticism of any one individual or anything but the time it takes on the legislative side can be a reason why we are behind and that is the primary reason in this case.