Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Independent)

I have not mastered the art of bilocation yet. I was in a committee meeting and missed much of the response the Minister gave. There are a number of components to my questions, the first of which is the requirement to keep records. It is very difficult for the Taxing Master to adjudicate on something if there is no requirement to keep records. I do not know if the Minister indicated in his reply that he intends to make changes but I presume it is open to him to make those type of provisions by way of an amendment to a piece of legislation.

The second component concerns people who are persistently complained to and found to have been offenders in regard to the Taxing Master. Most of those would concern family law cases. The lack of that information does not act as a warning to people when they take on someone to prosecute a case. Those are the areas on which I would like to hear the Minister's response.

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