Ms Angela Denning:

In Naas for example, the Courts Service purchased a site at the rear of the courthouse in 2023 in order to expand the courthouse because we were looking at demographics and so on. The population has grown. Naas deals with District Court and Circuit Court cases. It is a matter for the president of each court to assign judges for the workloads that are there. Kildare also has Athy Courthouse. There are no significant issues there.

We are putting in a network there to get videoconferencing into Athy. I understand that is imminent and it will be in place for a Circuit Court case later this year. On the allocation of funding, the expansion of Naas is actually in the national development plan but it just has not been funded to date.