Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 29 June 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
General Scheme of the Representative Actions for the Protection of the Collective Interests of Consumers Bill 2022: Discussion
Ms Clare McNamara:
The entity will have to fund itself. Under the laws of champerty and maintenance, we are very limited in what we can do to actually fund bodies in cases like this. They would have to fund themselves. That is the risk they are taking if they apply to be a qualified entity in the first place.