Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)

Okay. I will help you on this. These are administrators who run the Courts Service. There is no judge here. It is a matter for a judge to decide what the common good is in an individual case. The witnesses cannot comment about an individual case. We are here to find out how many cases there are, what the delays are, what the process is, and how long it takes. We are looking at the delivery of national infrastructure and the Courts Service and judicial reviews are part of it. How a judge makes up his mind is not for him or her to explain to the Oireachtas. They are independent of the Oireachtas. The issue of the common good is something that we, as a committee, can come back to in our report. We cannot comment on the common good in a legal case. That is a matter for a judge. We have to respect their independence whether we like it or not. I am sure we will deal with the issue of the common good in our work as a committee going forward.