Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)

The courts will all have to be in the early part of January. Under the existing arrangements they had to be, effectively, the week before Christmas. One can always say there is never going to be a good time, but the reality is that there is no practical benefit from a further extension. All that happens is that we do what is normally done in this country, namely, that everything is put on the long finger.