Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)

I do not want to get dragged into a retrospective evaluation of that kind of litigation except to say that I have a strong view that, irrespective of whether a judge or a witness had a mobile telephone in court, it is not a matter of huge consequence. We are all very prissy on this subject. It is a passing thing. Five years ago, people wrote letters to the editors of newspapers claiming that they were outraged that others were walking the streets talking into mobile phones. I presume Senator Norris was one of those cranks and went around accusing——