Senator Terry stated that one appointment was presaged in the debate on this legislation and asked if I could identify the second appointee. No decision has been made on this yet. The Senator also asked about the necessity for gardaí to appear in court and how much Garda time is spent in courts. It is very difficult for me to state a figure but a huge amount of Garda time is spent in courts. When I was starting out as a barrister, it was more or less expected by a trial judge of a jury trial that all the Garda witnesses would remain in court for the duration of the whole case. If, on the eighth or twelfth day of a such a case an issue arose regarding whether a garda had made a particular statement, there was a shocked silence if that garda was not available to come up from the bowels of the court immediately to be re-examined on the issue, as if there were nothing better for the garda to do.