Malcolm Noonan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I will just give the elements that the departmental group is considering: the appropriate rates for different types of legal work under the scale of fees appropriate to the superior courts; the financial assessment criteria for all applicants, including NGOs and unincorporated bodies, and the practicality of their application; the funding arrangements for the financial assistance mechanism; the contribution rates and financial assessment criteria for the financial assistance mechanism; and the operational model for the establishment and management of the mechanism. Those are the issues that are going to be considered in developing this.