Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)

I deny it, of course. It has no connection with that matter, which is settled under rules of court and upon which Senators, I am sure, have their own views. As the Senator is aware, the District Court, where the bulk of these applications are made, does not enjoy the benefit of the extensive vacation enjoyed by the other courts. I gave that illustration not in reference to court vacations but because the courts do not sit on the particular holidays prescribed in the Organisation of Working Time Act, which the Oireachtas has prescribed for the nation at large. In those circumstances it seems appropriate to take those into account in legislation of this character, something that could not have been taken into account in the 1991 Act.