Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 27 November 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Access to Justice and Legal Costs: Discussion
Mr. John McDaid:
There are two provisions. There is a provision in relation to legal advice that a complainant in a prosecution is entitled to get legal advice free of charge and without reference to their means. We do advertise that service on our website. I believe that a lot of the NGOs are aware of that service. The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions is aware of that service. We do not control the demand for that service. The service is there if people wish to avail of it.
I do not know if we can do much more to be proactive in marketing that service.
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