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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Aid Board: Chairperson Designate (30 Apr 2024)
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: It has not been revised since then.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Aid Board: Chairperson Designate (30 Apr 2024)
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Who sets the threshold?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Aid Board: Chairperson Designate (30 Apr 2024)
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I apologise if Ms Egan has already referred to this. Have there been representations to the Minister's office on this matter? If so, how recently did that happen?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Aid Board: Chairperson Designate (30 Apr 2024)
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Does Ms Egan know what metrics were used to come up with that number in 2006? Was there any scientific explanation or does it link to anything?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Aid Board: Chairperson Designate (30 Apr 2024)
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Does Ms Egan have a view as to what the threshold should be or does that fall outside her remit?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Aid Board: Chairperson Designate (30 Apr 2024)
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: That is disposable income.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Aid Board: Chairperson Designate (30 Apr 2024)
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Can Ms Egan give me an estimate? This is probably an unfair question but does Ms Egan have a sense, even anecdotally, of how many individuals or individual cases are being missed out on because of the differential between €18,000 and €21,000?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Aid Board: Chairperson Designate (30 Apr 2024)
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: What would the financial implications be for somebody who is outside of the threshold? What are the financial implications for the individual? They obviously take the case themselves because it is too expensive.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Aid Board: Chairperson Designate (30 Apr 2024)
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Aid Board: Chairperson Designate (30 Apr 2024)
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: What is the success rate of people who represent themselves?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Aid Board: Chairperson Designate (30 Apr 2024)
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I was hoping Ms Egan might have an opinion. I assume the success rate is lower than for those who have legal representation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I thank the Cathaoirleach. I am sorry I had to miss many of the presentations, but I had to be in two places at once. There was an education debate in the Dáil Chamber. On the last point about far-right parties, many of the voices in the Oireachtas that I am hardwired to immediately disagree with have been very critical of this. That is why people like myself have been willing to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I would like to start with Mr. Henderson and go from there.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I am interested to hear what other people have to say. On the system we have, imperfect and problematic and all that it is, and with the history we have of a Department which often could be justifiably described as institutionally racist - that is my own view - we should try to improve it, rather than going into an EU-wide pact which undermines some of the basic rights that have been built...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I thank the Chair.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I am conscious of time. Does somebody else wish to come in?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I am conscious of time. Deputy Gannon is next.
- Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (24 Apr 2024)
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: It was amendment No. 33.
- Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (24 Apr 2024)
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Yes.
- Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (24 Apr 2024)
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I move amendment No. 33: In page 56, between lines 26 and 27, to insert the following: “Prohibition of advertising 67. (1) A person shall not advertise gambling, or cause gambling to be advertised. (2) A person who contravenes subsection (1) is guilty of an offence and is liable— (a) on summary conviction, to a class A fine, or imprisonment for a term not exceeding...