Pa Daly (Kerry, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I am not sure about the case the Minister is talking about, but the garda could have always given evidence, as could his or her colleagues, and the judge could have made up his or her own mind as to whether to give the benefit of the doubt to the defendant if it were a contested case.

The judge could make up their own mind as to whether to give the benefit of the doubt to the defendant then if it was a contested case. Would it be the view of the Minister that Circuit Courts, for example, should be sitting in mid or late September for trials?