Tralee Circuit Court sittings
Pa Daly objected to Circuit Court trials being moved from Tralee to Limerick, saying it harmed Kerry and contradicted Town Centres First. The Taoiseach said it was a Courts Service matter, would ask the Minister to engage, and joked that Cork is good to Kerry.
This day fortnight, the Circuit Court trials which are supposed to start in Tralee and have done for generations will once again commence in Limerick city, which means all the jury members, the legal teams, Garda working in Kerry and witnesses will be taken out of the county for a period of five weeks. Not only is this inconvenient for all of those people, it flies in the face of the Government's Town Centres First policy because all of that business is gone from the town. I ask the Taoiseach to do what he can to restore the trials to Kerry.
Comment on this
It is a Courts Service issue. I will ask the Minister, Deputy McEntee, to engage with the Courts Service on the matter. We are always anxious to do what we can for Kerry.