Barry Ward (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Do any of our colleagues online want to ask a question? I do not see any hands up. I will ask a couple of questions.

First, I must declare an interest in that I am a practising barrister and are therefore subject to regulation by the LSRA. Dr. Doherty made reference to, for example, maintaining the roll of practising barristers. Does the LSRA have a list of people who are qualified, who have been called to the Bar or admitted to the inner Bar but who are not on the roll of practising barristers? I ask because I see people all the time describing themselves as barristers. I do not know them. I do not have to know them in order for them to be barristers, but they are not members of the Law Library and I find that they are not on the LSRA's roll of practising barristers. I do not know how anybody can verify whether they are in fact a barrister in those circumstances.