Member

As long as the director can assure us through the Minister that serious safeguards are put in place, it seems to me that we have to do this. There is no money in the criminal justice system—something that Sir Brian Leveson is constantly telling people—and I can only say that there is a need to put vastly more money into it, but making a reform like this will help on the budgetary pressures that are so damaging our criminal justice system. Subject to the suitable safeguards, we really ought to look at this reform as being one that should be brought into effect, because we can afford to do no other.