Vol. 475 No. 6
79 Mr. T. Kitt asked the Minister for Justice the steps, if any, she will take to rectify the current anomalous situation whereby there are more District Court clerks appointed than provided for in the Court Officers Act, 1926. [5446/97]
I do not accept that there is any anomaly in the appointment of more than one District Court clerk to a District Court area under the Court Officers Act, 1926. This has been the consistent view of Ministers for Justice since 1926.
This matter was the subject of recent litigation in the High Court initiated by a number of District Court clerks. In his judgment given yesterday Mr. Justice Morris, in the case of William Sexton and Others and the Minister for Justice, Ireland and the Attorney General, held that there is clear authority for the assignment of more than one clerk in any given area.
