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 Rose Wall:
To achieve the ideal, the model of legal aid - the areas covered, the means test, etc. - would need to be uprooted and changed entirely. It could be done incrementally. One could start with resourcing to try to reduce waiting times. One could start with the areas of law that it covers. One could start with the means test, which should be reviewed every year and expanded. To be more realistic, there are more discrete things that could be done in following a path to examining the whole system.
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