Terry Leyden (Fianna Fail)

I accept that. I will not be coming in and out of the Chamber all evening as I have one specific question for the Minister and I would like to hear his response. Juries can be nobbled in different ways. I came across one case in which it was understood that people came, apparently innocently, to the houses of the jury members selling vacuum cleaners and told the jurors how good the person on trial was. No threats were mentioned; it was all done in a different way. This may be anecdotal and there may be no truth to it, but I was told it in conversation a long time ago. I will not say where or when the incident was supposed to have taken place.

When one goes into the Four Courts or any court one can see the jury, and it is easy, in a small country, to identify the jurors. The threat to those people's futures is what the Minister is attempting to deal with in the Bill. I thank the Minister for introducing this Bill, trying to fight organised crime and not putting the lives of innocent citizens and their families at risk, as happened in Limerick.