Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)

I have great faith in the service and I believe it will recognise that it will be entirely redundant to require people to put the same material in two separate documents and that they should therefore amend the rules of court to state that the period for defence runs from the service of the new summons rather than the statement of claim, which is now involved in this type of litigation.

Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.

Section 9 agreed to.