Harry McGee
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127 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 19 Jul
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So, I mean, I think they...
The politicians are kind of very much focusing their attention at those.
I think also Micheál Martin has been talking about an inheritance tax.
So the other things they're looking at, they're looking at the public sector pay deal.
Negotiations haven't started there, but they're saying that perhaps the unions and government will need to come to some kind of compromise and expectations will have to be tempered given the financial situation.
Talking about the two most powerful countries,
lobby groups in Irish society, without a doubt, lawyers and doctors, and the various confrontations that they've had with the two most prominent of the line ministers, Jennifer Carl McNeill, who we mentioned a second ago, who's already had a standoff with clinicians in the Rotunda.
And as Niamh was averting to their Jim O'Callaghan, who's in a war of attrition at present.
with solicitors both on the civil and criminal aid.
And the other thing, EU presidency, lots of challenges there, security and energy, and then Achnish Illumina.
And that's going to be a big difficulty, I think, on the inbox of Peter Burke, the Minister for Enterprise, in September, October, when that report finally emerges and the European Union give a verdict on it as well.
So I think the argument essentially is that the this is very non-technical way of putting it, but that cases are essentially being strung along.
It's the backlog in the courts.
Multiple adjournments, etc.
And the solution that O'Callaghan has come up with is, I think, 500 and something euro, which covers five appearances plus 8%, he says.
So they get a flat fee.
And he was essentially saying that the...
Cases on the criminal aid side, as opposed to private criminal cases, take much longer, an average of five appearances compared to three.
Now, those who are involved in it say that the defendants in criminal aid cases are often people at the lowest end of society with authority.
Multiple problems, including drug addiction, mental health, they don't always turn up in court.
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