Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 21 February 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

General Scheme of the Multi-Party Actions Bill 2017: Discussion

9:00 am

Mr. Dave Coleman:

I accept that. I will conclude by welcoming the invitation to appear before the committee. It is important to have a proper system of justice for mass tort in this country, and that is not because I believe we need a lawyer fest. I am doing a case in South Africa for 25,000 miners and we have waived our fee. It is not about the lawyers but about the citizens in the State and the fact that they are denied access to justice even though we pride ourselves on our Constitution.