Barry Andrews (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)

I welcome the Senator's comments. The intention of the Bill is to provide a better service for those using legal services. In addition, legal practitioners will also benefit from whatever will be learned from all of this. The powers to be afforded to the legal services ombudsman will be quite wide and will have all the necessary balances. As I said, the legal services ombudsman can exclude a complaint if he or she is of the opinion that it is frivolous or vexatious. It is a well crafted Bill and much of the drafting reflects the concerns about balance that have been expressed by Senators.