Legal Aid
Dail Éireann — 2025-10-09
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Paul Murphy (PBP), Dublin South-West

The disposable income threshold for civil legal aid is only €18,000. Incredibly, it has not been updated since 2006. Think of all the cost-of-living crises and everything else we have been through since then. How much additional funding is provided for civil legal aid in the budget? Will it allow for the raising of the threshold very significantly and for abolishing it entirely in cases where domestic violence is a factor?

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Sitting date: 2025-10-09