asked the Minister for Justice whether he is aware that the holding of the Circuit Court in Carrick-on-Shannon, which is situated in the extreme end of South Leitrim, is a cause of great inconvenience and expense to jurors and the people generally, and whether, in view of this fact, he will consider the holding of the court alternately in Ballinamore, as was formerly the practice.
CEISTEANNA—QUESTIONS. ORAL ANSWERS. - LEITRIM CIRCUIT COURTS.
I have no authority to say, in my sole discretion, where the Circuit Court shall or shall not sit. This is one of the matters which fall to be decided by the Rule-Making Authority for the Circuit Court which has been constituted pursuant to Section 65 of the Courts of Justice Act, 1924. The Circuit Court Rules which were recently laid before this House do not prescribe the town of Ballinamore as one of the places in which there shall be sittings of the Circuit Court. I shall bring the question forward for consideration by the Joint Committee of both Houses of the Oireachtas which has been appointed to consider the Rules.