95,000 court summonses yet to be issued as Covid-19 causes major backlog

The Justice Minister has promised more technology to help courts clear the caseload. 

More than €1.7m will be invested in ICT to install video technology to support more remote court hearings, helping to ease the backlog, the minister said. Picture: iStock

The Minister for Justice has promised more technology for Irish Courts to help clear the dizzying backlog of cases.

Although 97,000 cases have been cleared from the backlog since July, some 95,000 summonses — the court documents which legally require a person to attend court — are still waiting to be issued.