Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)

There is an Estimates process. They come to me and they get a block Vote. The chief executive of the Courts Service is the Accounting Officer. In case people think that the Executive still runs everything, gets all the information and leaves it on a shelf, I would like to say that this is not so. The Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform does not do that anymore. That is all done by the Courts Service, which is independent of the Department. The only issue is resourcing.

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