Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 15 January 2014

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed)

11:00 am

Photo of Niall CollinsNiall Collins (Limerick, Fianna Fail)
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In terms of a sense of proportion, that is it. The points have been very well made about expertise and working knowledge. In establishing the Criminal Assets Bureau, CAB, or the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, we put in place people who had knowledge and skill in those areas of work in those organisations, and we need to do the same here. Deputy Mac Lochlainn made the point very well that they can hit the ground running. That is important. These people know the legal services providers around the country and a mechanism must be found to accommodate them. Otherwise, we will be left with duplication.