Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)

I accept that. I was just making the point that the Judiciary is not acting as a group of amateurs when running a data project of its own. That is its function. One of the key functions of the Courts Service is to inform the Judiciary on what is going on. The old-fashioned notion that the Department does everything and the judges are helpless does not exist anymore.

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