Debate contribution: Protecting Victims of Coercive Control
Debate contribution by Ms Aoife Finnegan on .
- MLA
- Ms Aoife Finnegan
- Party at the time
- Sinn Féin
- Date
- 5 May 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Private Members' Business
- Heading
- Protecting Victims of Coercive Control
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5525264
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I understand, Minister, that you are taking measures to make access to legal aid less complicated. Do you agree that, as I have heard, solicitors have come back to say that there is little uptake of that legal aid because it is not being offered because the application process, as it stands, is so complex? They say that they reckon that the paperwork is the same as an accountant would need.
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