The Courts Service of Ireland has invited input into its Strategic Plan for the period 2017-2020. Stakeholders and interested parties have until 22 September 2017 to indicate what issues they think should be addressed in the next Strategic Plan.
The last Strategic Plan for 2014-2017 was written in the context of increasing budgetary pressure on the Courts Service. Brendan Ryan, CEO of the Courts Service, wrote in the introduction: “This Strategic Plan follows six years of austerity which have seen severe reductions in funding and staffing for the Courts Service. We have also had to deal with a number of legislative changes that have increased workloads in the courts and court offices. However there are positive signs that the worst of the austerity is over as the economy begins to show signs of recovery.”
Input into the new Strategic Plan should be submitted in electronic format to strategystatement2018@courts.ie.