Irish Examiner View: Our legal aid safety net is threadbare

Qualification limits for legal aid should be changed to reflect 2020 costs rather than those that applied 2006.

The Legal Aid Board has warned as eligibility criteria for its services has not changed in 14 years, a situation that might drive some of those in of the scheme's support into  "poverty traps".

Any society worthy of the description understands that safety nets are needed to try to protect citizens at their moment of difficulty. 

That assertion stands even if some of those nets can be targets for cliched, less-than-generous criticism.