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Other Questions: Schools Building Projects Status (4 Jul 2018)

Clare Daly: What the Minister is saying is that the technical issues have been identified and resolved and that these are not impediments to the project. A second question then arises. The terms of the site acquisition can now be finalised. When is that likely? When will the conveyancing be completed? When will the planning application be put in? The Minister says there has been no unnecessary...

Other Questions: Schools Building Projects Status (4 Jul 2018)

Clare Daly: How long is it likely to take?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulatory Authority: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Clare Daly: I thank Dr. Thornhill for attending. I have another meeting at 10 a.m. and must leave to attend it but I hope to be back. I will ask a few questions before that time and I will certainly be back if I can make it. We have to consider this discussion in the context of the fierce resistance put up by the legal profession to the introduction of this legislation and the fact that the previous...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulatory Authority: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Clare Daly: That is fine.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulatory Authority: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Clare Daly: Are we sure this is going to come in the first half of-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulatory Authority: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Clare Daly: Is Dr. Thornhill optimistic that will be met?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulatory Authority: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Clare Daly: Dr. Thornhill has acknowledged that the process has been incredibly slow. He could not but do that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulatory Authority: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Clare Daly: He has also acknowledged the regulatory authority is frustrated in that. The opening statement talks about the unusual requirements in the beginning. Is Dr. Thornhill saying all of this should have been done before the Act was passed? It is almost as if we were suspicious - which we would obviously not be - that the organisation was set up with two hands tied behind its back to create an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulatory Authority: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Clare Daly: If we look at the minutes from the regulatory authority's meeting last year, they reflect that the members were recording concern at the Department and at the role of the Department in providing the regulatory authority with timelines on the implementation of legal partnerships. In those minutes, the members felt the regulatory authority's independence was potentially being undermined by the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulatory Authority: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Clare Daly: Deputy Wallace was just remarking that would be the first indication of zeal on the part of the Department of Justice and Equality. I think we can all relate to that. In any event-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulatory Authority: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Clare Daly: I know that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulatory Authority: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Clare Daly: Absolutely not. I have one or two other quick questions. They may not have anything to do with the regulatory authority. The Act that established the regulatory authority also contains a section on pre-action protocols for clinical negligence cases, which is critical. Does the Legal Services Regulatory Authority have any role in that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulatory Authority: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Clare Daly: No role at all?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulatory Authority: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Clare Daly: The regulatory authority does not see itself taking on any of that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulatory Authority: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Clare Daly: Staying with the medical negligence issue, the Medical Protection Society, MPS, which provides indemnity cover for most Irish hospital consultants, has previously said that in some negligence cases, barristers' brief fees in Ireland are twice those in the UK. It cited one trial where a barrister's brief of €30,000 was charged. That was double the amount a Queen's Counsel would seek...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulatory Authority: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Clare Daly: It will certainly be a first in Ireland in this profession. We know that the authority is supposed to be self-funding, to be funded from the operation of a levy on legal practitioners. I asked the Minister a question about this last month. My concern is that, in spite of the fact that the authority is supposed to be self-funding, to date it has cost €3 million - €1 million in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulatory Authority: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Clare Daly: The authority has been allocated €1 million each year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulatory Authority: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Clare Daly: The money has been given to the authority, although it may not have been drawn down.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulatory Authority: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Clare Daly: However, a sum of €1 million per year was assigned to the authority.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulatory Authority: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Clare Daly: I accept that the authority has not expended that amount to date. Some of the money could be paid back, but a sum of €1 million has been assigned every year for three years to the Legal Services Regulatory Authority.