Liam Fitzgerald
Ceist:184 Mr. L. Fitzgerald asked the Minister for Justice her views on whether it is time for her Department to convene a forum, analogous to the Forum for Peace and Reconciliation, whereby all interested groups, such as gardaí, prison officers, lawyers, trade unions, representative organisations, citizens and political parties could make submissions for new ideas on the way in which the system might be renewed and reformed, purely in legislative terms, in view of the fact that most of the legislation in the criminal justice area is pre-constitutional and Victorian in origin, with piecemeal additions and amendments, and that most of the administration of justice takes place under the roof of Victorian and older buildings and that the day-to-day management is run under a British civil service model; and her views on whether such a forum might give rise to a newer, more Irish system of the administration of justice. [8654/97]
