Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I do not have much more to say. The key point here is the delay which would result from issuing decisions in writing where that is not the norm in the District Court. The volume of bail cases before the courts is very substantial and to divert resources to providing a written decision in every case would create further delays in the process. Even a written decision provided only on request has the potential to create delays and it is impossible to gauge the level of requests there would be.

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