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AN IRISH CIVIL liberties group has called on Government to provide €3.3m to restore legal aid fees for barristers.
In their pre-budget submission the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) said that the Government should invest €8.6 million – that would equate to a 0.01% increase in the sector’s budget.
A recent campaign has seen barristers protest outside courts in a campaign for greater pay.
The junior and senior lawyers said that the current rate of pay for District Court appearances is unsustainable in March of this year.
Barrister Darren Lalor, who was one of the organisers of the protest said that the pay situation is at a point where many of his colleagues are leaving the profession.
Ireland is not the only country with industrial relations concerns amongst lawyers, with the UK seeing barristers take strike action to increase fees.
Lalor welcomed the recommendation: “The rights of victims of crime and those accused of crime can only be vindicated if legal representation for each is properly funded.
“Anything less is a breach of the Rule of Law. The current situation in Courts in England and Wales spells out the consequences if the funding issue is not resolved.
“Rates of pay fixed in 2002 cannot be compliant with Rule of Law requirements.”
ICCL Director Liam Herrick said their proposal was a “modest investment” in human rights.
“In many cases, our requests will actually save the public money in the long term as investment now will prevent expensive investigations and legal cases in the future.
“The government has a duty to protect human rights. These rights aren’t abstract and require spending to ensure that they are protected and realised,” he said.
The UCCL proposes that six areas would see investment – this includes the coroners’ system they said “would provide compassion and justice for the bereaved” at a cost of €1.3m.
They have also recommended a similar digital system to one in Belgium which would “ensure the right to a legal defence” which would cost €500,000.
ICCL called for €450,000 to be spent on an education campaign to protect people who are victims of hate crime.
The group has also recommended for €300,000 external review of the Data Protection Commission and also more resources for the new office of the Inspector of Places of Detention which would cost €2.55m.
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Best 20 mins of rte tv for years
I for one would like to welcome our Irish Ukrainian overlords
Just to clarify, you’re talking about Irish Ukrainians, not Russians, right?
The post of RTÉ One Controller is vacant – lets send a diplomatic telegram to Kiev!
He was on again during ‘Scott and bailey’!! We’re fecked! Fecked I tell ya!!
Yes Nicky Irish Ukrainains not Russians were spoken about for 20 minutes
I blame Gilmore.
Looks like their footage was stalin!
When TV license inspector calls just look at them and twitch your head from side to side.. Have a TV, Don’t have a TV, Have a TV, Don’t have a TV.. Until he gets the message and fecks off.
Just another repeat on RTE
Was watching this but thought no one in RTE must be,when TV was in the Neanderthal stage it managed ‘is dona linn an bristle seo’ ..
I didn’t like it. Just putin it out there
Eurovision entry for Ireland
And better than the song that was chosen
I don’t remember anything about that 20 mins as I think I became hypnotized listening to the mantra !!!!
Same here. I zoned out waiting for my toast to pop and it was still going as I was
Had a better ending than Amber anyway
Good one
“Irish Ukrainians” was trending worldwide!
But not Russians??
Ah here first the scoreboard for the late late Eurosong, which I notice went under the radar because of Lindagate, now more techno problems….
This was definitely the Russians. Way to convenient.
I disagree.
I’m not sure why but I have an overwhelming sense it was Irish Ukrainians, not Russians who did this.
That’s hilarious. On an unrelated note, have they apologised to that elderly couple who recently spent a morning in Mountjoy for being late with their TV license fee?
The Angelus should be replaced with 20min of #irishikrainiansnotrussians
Sorry I had to Benny Hill-itize it http://youtu.be/cjfoCzimtCw
Cian you will be put forward for the next Oscars for that wonderful contribution to TV
The Russians are coming to get us
They are already here Denzil …
it went on for 20 mins
@ Dan
It did
It did
It did
It did
Radio Telefis Eejits
Is their such thing now as Irish Ukrainians now ???
Yes, didn’t you hear? They’re Irish Ukrainians not Russians.
See what happens when you p*** off Putin, Gilmore?
ah lads don’t tell me how it ended, I have it recorded!
Fr ted is not a racist, not a racist, not a racist, not a racist, not a racist ..
Irish what now?
This is just the start of the brainwashing from the Government !!! Lol !!!
I was just about to ring sky and tell them their service is crap….. Anyone have a number?
Six.
Six is a number.
3 is better. It’s a lucky number.
Why would you ring sky? Obviously it’s an rte issue
Why not? Sky have a better chance of fixing it!
When will it be on Netflix?
It was a broadcast issue not a satellite issue. It was happening on upc and saorview too
Funny thing was I checked Saorview and it wasn’t happening there while still happening via my Sky box so can’t really blame RTE or can you?
How about 5 or even 23 ?
Well it was RTÉ who fixed it…
6 & 28 are perfect.
We are not Russian
The end is nigh for RTE.
Correction, it is the beginning of RTE1
Bloody foreigners!! They took the jobs, they took the women, they took the dole and now the television
A scud missile hit the RTE tower and caused a major malfunction a major malfunction a major malfunction a …………………….
It was fired by Irish Ukrainians, not Russians.
It’s a pity they didn’t take out all rte buildings and towers! They would have done the Irish public a tremendous favour.
Yeah, last Friday would have spared us all the indignity of witnessing Linda Martin being a tool…
She is not a tool how dare you say that when we all know she’s a tool box
Jamming?
Dental plan.
Lisa needs braces.
I believe it’s not on the Player as RTE plan on releasing the DVD box set for the Lent!
The Kjb hacked our national broadcaster..
KGB
It’s FSB now!
Its out there. @irishukrainians
Just happened again, over Scott and Bailey, ha ha
A joke of a station on such a serious topic nearly as laughable as Gilmore getting his old comrades in the USSR from his Worker Party’s today to get back into line as our Minister for Foreign Affairs , next Gilmore & Enda will be telling us we the Irish People have never had it so good !!!!
Damn normal rubbish service has resumed Damn normal rubbish service has resumed
As I watch it on RTE One + 1, I’m getting the “This programmes is not available on this channel” bluescreen message! :(
Thats how to emphasise a point! !
It’s Labour’s way or Russia’s way!
And here’s the crucial moment Irish TV returned to normality ending the 15+ minutes of #IrishUkrainiansNotRussians takeover! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ofhuWIXWt8
L’oreal such killjoys
You could call it a bad case of “Kremlin Gremlins”
Down with that sort of thing!
I dont know, I StILL think it was RUSSIANS,! Sitting a breakfast reading all the previous comments made me laugh so much, you should all be script writers, Irish humour is not dead
Fast forward to reeling in the years in 2030
That remix is a really poor effort – absolutely no skill involved.
And this is our National Station.
Er, I’m pretty certain he’s saying “Banish Ukrainians, Love Russians” which, I must admit, makes as little sense as “Irish Ukrainians, not Russians”.
How could ye not hear that?
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Bet you copied and pasted that!
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The first thing you do when there is a malfunction in transmission, is put up an apology. At least the viewer knows you are aware of the problem. This has always been the procedure. I simply don’t believe that engineers were working for twenty minutes to fix the problem without taking the obvious course of informing its viewers that the problem was being addressed. It is inevitable that problems will occur in transmission every now and then. It’s how you handle it that is the important thing. Last night was a disaster. It simply appearred to the viewer that no one in RTE was aware of the problem..
This is precisely my position too. I assumed that the problem was not originating with RTE, that it was on some cable system but not all and that RTE was unaware. I was wondering how on earth that could happen when I realised that RTE staff had tweeted that it was internal. Now I’m being asked to believe that while engineers worked to clear a fault, the fault was left on-air. No, I’m not buying it. RTE has a decades-old procedure for dealing with the likes of this.
@ Dermot
Why Dermot ?
Sure nobody noticed anything wrong .
The United States was behind this one…..They wanted to scupper the programme.
Might be bugged like GSOC
Will Mr.Backhurst resign I wonder.
Did anybody else dream of Irish Ukrainians, not Russians?
Whose voice was that?
It sounds like Pooh tin.
Now let’s all rise for the national anthem.
“Irish Ukrainians, not Russians…”
In the interest of unbiased reporting when do we get 20 mins of Irish Russians not Ukrainians. Tis RTE not gonna hold my breath.
So thats what happened linda martin on the late late she was hacked…..
2fm been acting weird computer glitches and stuff as well as what happend on late late
I gave up taking RTE seriously many years ago so not surprised that incidents like this happen. I happened to be at a friend’s house yesterday and happened to see the news..noticed they sent that tr***hope Perry to the Oscars. Wonder if she was I’m Ellen’s selfie?? Shameful .. and Rabbitte wants us to pay for this !!!!!!!!!!
Technicians had been working to be fix the problem…
Citizen Kane.. Orson Welles ‘Rosebud’ strange how the original script went for sale at Sotherby’s yesterday! Coincidence? Doo do doo doo…
WHAT!!!!!! People still watch RTE. I thought they went bankrupt years ago……
Russians are coming to get us? Hardly. We have Linda Martin.
Odd thing is that it didn’t happen on RTÉ One HD, and it seemed very strange when they cut Prime Time short for an extended ad break… until I looked at twitter and saw what was going on ;)
The big problem with RTE is that their main ‘star’ presenters are too highly paid, and they have no money left over for anything else.
Their broadcasting standards are becoming progressively worse.
They were also mostly blame for the whole Panti – Iona Institute Homophobia row. Brendan O’Connor prompted Panti to name names. As a ‘professional’ broadcaster he should have know better. Panti deserves an apology from RTE also
I’m sick of the lot of RTE, Tubridy, O’Connor, Finucane etc live in a privileged pampered bubble, subsidised by the taxpayer.
We deserve better.
Guys, you need an editor. Some of the grammatical errors in the articles are getting worse.
MORE crap from RTE.
Does no one else think it’s a bit scary Scary though that someone can hack into live TV? Luckily there wasn’t a match on or heads would fly…If the Ukrainians want to get the word out maybe they should use Facebook,…no one watches RTE duh! (we only watch all the fails on you tube)…another good medium ( :
This is what we’re paying our TV License for and yeah what happened the Score on de Song Contest did anyone actually see the final score ??
I never ever had this kind of thing happen before,then again ive never had a loss of signal under the old analog system,but now under the new digital system it happens.
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