Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 April 2024

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed)

Photo of Eoin Ó BroinEoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

We know all of that. That is not the issue. What we want to know is the detail. For example, the current legal aid scheme has all sorts of restrictions with regard to reducing costs and cutting costs that deny people access to legal representation on their day in court and a whole range of other matters. The Minister of State wants us to dispense with the current regime that is in place. This amendment seeks to leave that current cost regime in place. The Minister of State should convince us, not tell us what he hopes or aspires might happen at some point when somebody else produces some regulation.

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