Madam Deputy Speaker, I know it is late but we need to register our utmost concern about the functioning of this department, the core function of which is the administration of justice. Civil justice and administrative justice are just way too expensive for anyone to access. Criminal justice is not working. This is a department for which there really should be no reason for it not to work properly. It could be fixed, but it is branching out into various directions and is neglecting its core business.
There is a fundamental lack of vision. We hope that next year the Department of Justice will focus on its primary objective, which is that of making justice affordable to everyone. There are ways in which that could be done and it ought to become a priority - effectiveness, competence and efficiency.