Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 8 July 2025
Committee on Children and Equality
General Scheme of the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion
2:00 am
Ms Carly Bailey:
It is a challenge to navigate the system first and foremost and figure out where you supposed to go and all those things. The point was made about the lack of access to civil legal aid. That is also a difficulty. Again, all these bodies and organisations that are there to assist people with making a claim or giving advice and information are also incredibly under-resourced. In civil society, wherever is in receipt of funding, it is never multi-annual. It is a trickle here and a trickle there. It is very difficult. The whole space is probably under pressure in that way.