Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 11 December 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Access to Justice and Legal Costs: Discussion (Resumed)
Ms Rebecca Keatinge:
We have had feedback. We were competing against a number of organisations in a range of spheres, so it was not necessarily a specific law fund, as it were. Positioning our service in the homeless and housing space is, in some respects, challenging. If one speaks to a lawyer, it is clear that we can lift a lot of barriers to people accessing adequate housing, so they do not need to access an emergency bed somewhere, or we lift the reason why they need a free meal in the evening. We fulfil a function but articulating that can be more challenging.
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