Billy Timmins (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Question 241: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the waiting time for free legal aid in each county at present; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32846/06]

Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)
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I can inform the Deputy that the present position with respect to waiting times at the Legal Aid Board's law centres is that legal services are being provided to all eligible persons well within the target maximum period of four months. In fact, the waiting time is two months or less at more than two thirds of all law centres and is no more than three months in all other centres. The following table gives the maximum current waiting times for each law centre at the end of September, 2006.