Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)

I thank Deputy Ring for his contribution. I can assure him that, under section 25, the legal services ombudsman will have strong powers to require the provision of information. He or she can require to see the files and deal with them, which is a concern Deputy Ring expressed understandably in the course of his contribution. Deputy Ring might not be so pleased to learn that the scheme envisaged by the Bill is that the complaint will go in the first instance through the Law Society or the Bar Council.

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