Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I might take them in reverse order. There is a great advantage in having representative bodies such as the Law Society representing solicitors and the Bar Council representing barristers and they have an important role to play. I am open to correction but I am not sure that barristers who are not currently members of the Law Library are officially represented by the Bar Council but I agree with the Deputy. It is of no advantage to anyone to have splinter organisations-----