Ms Anne Costello:

The President of the District Court has invited us to come back to meet with him again. At that first session with the District Court judges, they invited us to come back to meet with the Circuit Court judges and the more senior judges. We met with them in an online meeting. What has surprised us is that they do not understand what is going on in other areas. For example, there is a drugs court, but many of them did not even know about it. The drugs court is hugely supportive of people with issues in the criminal justice system. We were not aware of it either. It was Ms Sweeney who raised awareness about it among us. While there was a real lack of awareness from the judges, there was real honesty. Ms Sweeney spoke to the judges about going into court one day. I will let her explain.