James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Certainly, it remains part of the capital programme to advance that as much as is feasible. Obviously, it is up to the Courts Service how they and the judges want to run the courts.

There has been, as the Deputy says, a reduction of transport as a result of the use of technology and the use of that technology will continue into the future. Nonetheless, some prisoners have to be transferred. We have seen an increase in the prisoner population. I suppose the technology has reduced the numbers but the increase in the population, in turn, has increased the numbers on the other side of it. Unfortunately, the demand on the transport remains.