Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 16 January 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
General Scheme of European Convention on Human Rights (compensation for delays in court proceedings) Bill 2019: Discussion
Ms Sinéad Lucey:
-----that it can happen again.
We do not see that there is a basis for wholly excluding those bodies, either as a matter of cumulative delays - if one ends in the courts, it does not mean one has not spent two or three years dealing with one's issue before a quasi-judicial body before one even gets there and, therefore, why would one truncate the compensation somebody would get - but also because we question why somebody should not be able to recover some kind of compensation if his or her issue before the quasi-judicial body was not determined.
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