Tom Kitt (Dublin South, Fianna Fail)

With regard to the Courts Act, I accept the point made about lords wearing their robes in parliament. The Act compels lords to wear their robes in parliament and judges and barons to wear their habits and coifs in term time. It provides a statutory basis for the wearing of gowns by the Judiciary and it is therefore not suitable for repeal. While we might not like some of these statutes, my job was to retain Acts that are still relevant today.