Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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Question 127: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will make a statement on reports over summer 2007 that thousands of defective summons were in circulation due to problems with the PULSE system following changes to the legislation governing the District Court rules necessitating Gardaí to track down court summons and re-write them by hand. [27396/07]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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I am informed by the Garda authorities that there have been no problems with the PULSE system following changes to legislation governing District Court Rules as indicated by the Deputy.

A minor amendment was made to the legislation governing the Rules on 1st August, 2007 by the substitution of summons Form 15.2 Schedule B with a new Form 15.2 (Statutory Instrument No. 418 of 2007 refers).

The Garda authorities advise that the substituted Form has had no operational impact on the organisation and has not necessitated Gardaí tracking down court summons and re-writing them by hand.