This is particularly relevant in the case of young offenders. If a period of years elapses between the commission of an offence and the offender being called to task in terms of trial and punishment, a total disconnection and departure from reality occurs in the mind of that offender. It worries me, too, that this is not simply a problem which manifests itself in relation to trials on indictment. Summary justice was always supposed to be a system of justice in which people were tried in quick order for minor offences. However, there is an extending gap between the time at which summary offences are committed and the time the District Court deals with those offences. There is no easy solution which can be summoned up by simply clicking one's fingers or wishing for it. It will require work. I believe this disconnect between the commission of crime and its investigation, trial and punishment on a timely basis is having a seriously lethargic and corrosive effect on people's faith in the administration of justice.