Legal aid system faces 'collapse' without investment, chair of Oireachtas committee warns

The civil legal aid system faces “collapse” without immediate investment and wider reforms, the Oireachtas justice committee has warned.

Committee chair Matt Carthy has warned that the level of reform required to the civil legal aid system would not be possible without “immediate and adequate" funding being provided to the Legal Aid Board.

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