Legal Aid Board €1.3m over budget and facing staffing crisis due to increase in asylum seeker cases
Chief executive of the Legal Aid Board Joan Crawford said some law centres would be left with no option but to close to new applications, to deal with a backlog of cases.
The Legal Aid Board told the Department of Justice it was running €1.3m over budget as it dealt with a vast increase in cases involving asylum seekers.
In a series of letters, the board’s senior management said it was struggling with “staff retention issues and low morale” due to its workload.
