Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 3 October 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
General Scheme of the Irish Prison Service Bill and of the Criminal Justice (Legal Aid) Bill: Discussion
Mr. Kevin Condon:
It is just on that point. The scheme, in fact, puts those non-statutory schemes on a statutory footing. They have been non-statutory for some time. It is part of some of the thinking behind the Bill that it is the Legal Aid Board that actually operates some of those schemes, including the ad hocschemes, and to that extent the scheme extends the operation of the entire scheme to them. Certainly, whether it is the Garda station legal advice scheme or the Criminal Assets Bureau ad hoclegal aid scheme, they are given statutory footing here, subject to the Attorney General's advice. That is certainly the intention behind it.
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