Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Can we now move to the area of civil law? Obviously, the State does not have as much involvement in the whole area of civil law, because it does not fund it the same way as the State funds the prosecution of all criminal offences and it funds to a large extent the defence of criminal cases. In civil cases, it is different, although the State plays a big part in civil litigation. I do not know what Ms Barry would think of, if she had a wish list in FLAC. What group of people does she believe is being denied access to the justice system because of the failure to fund a civil legal aid system? Is that a fair question? For instance, one can look at people who want to go to the Residential Tenancies Board or the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC. They are all forms of access to justice, although they are not courts, for example in family law.