Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 18 January 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Legal Aid Board: Discussion with Chairman Designate
9:00 am
Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
What about a situation where a person has a difficulty and faces potential repossession of his or her home, in which the equity exceeds the technical financial criteria of the Legal Aid Board? If it is above €100,000, does it effectively remove thousands of potential applicants who, in real terms, have little or no access to finance but who are excluded because of the technical financial criteria of the board?
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