Mr. Liam Herrick:

Our view is that it does not exist in Ireland at present. The fundamental human rights question here is that, if everybody who needs to access legal advice and legal representation in a process that is critical to his or her legal status, he or she should be able to get them. If it is the case that people are going to be able to access legal advice at first instance and at all the key stages in the process, for example, age assessment and so on, and the legal counselling is supplementary to that, then there is no difficulty with that in principle.