Jim O'Callaghan
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Oct 28, 2026
Niall DonaldGUEST
latest on that? No, it's just things are, you know, it depends who you listen to.
Niall DonaldGUEST
Jim O'Callaghan seems to have a wildly different perspective than some of the criminal law solicitors.
Niall DonaldGUEST
But you can tell on the ground that things seem to be going through periods of delay.
Niall DonaldGUEST
And obviously there's different rules for that.
Adam ParsonsCORRESPONDENT
He might give Eisenhower the first crack at forming this coalition.
Shane BeattieHOST
There's fresh hope of a breakthrough in the criminal legal aid dispute as solicitors will meet with the Justice Minister Jim O'Callaghan this morning.
Shane BeattieHOST
Criminal defence solicitors say a resolution is within reach but they insist today's meeting must involve genuine negotiations.
Shane BeattieHOST
The dispute centres on payments for lengthy court cases and clients facing multiple prosecutions.
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And it is really frightening what is happening.
Fionnán SheehanHOST
Yeah, and is that the class problem here that this has been referred to by Jim O'Callaghan? I recall Michael McDool making the very same point 20 years ago when he was Minister for Justice that middle-class people are taking their lines of cocaine at weekends.
Fionnán SheehanHOST
They don't see a connection or they don't care about a connection between that and drug gangs tormenting people in working class areas or people who are vulnerable.
Fionnán SheehanHOST
And that's not just an urban issue, that's a rural one as well.
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Now, talks aimed at ending the legal dispute, the legal aid dispute, are due to take place tomorrow when the Law Society meets with the Justice Minister, Jim O'Callaghan.
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The row centres on a new flat fee payment model for district court legal aid cases, a move that has prompted solicitors to escalate their withdrawal of services.
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We're joined in our studio now by Amanda Connolly, Solicitor and Vice Chair of the Criminal Law Committee at the Law Society.
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Good morning and welcome to the programme.
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What are you going to be asking Jim O'Callaghan for when you meet him tomorrow?
Amanda ConnollyGUEST
Well, we're going to be asking him for the two tweaks that we have asked for for some time now in relation to that, which is the separate and distinct cases, separate payments for that up to a cap of five, as distinct from the multiple cases that we're talking about, completely separate and distinct cases.
Amanda ConnollyGUEST
And in addition to that, the...
Shane McElhattonCORRESPONDENT
He cites figures that show much of the burden has fallen on the west of Ireland.
Shane McElhattonCORRESPONDENT
While refugees make up half of 1% of Justice Minister Jim O'Callaghan's Dublin Bay South constituency, in North Clare it's 5%.
Shane McElhattonCORRESPONDENT
In Kenmare, he says, an extraordinary 7%.
Shane McElhattonCORRESPONDENT
He accuses the Minister of being hell-bent on phasing out all accommodation support for the refugees.
Shane McElhattonCORRESPONDENT
He says Ireland did take in 120,000 refugees and Irish families and communities have responded with heartfelt generosity and real practical help.
Shane McElhattonCORRESPONDENT
He cites figures to show refugees make up half of 1% of Justice Minister Jim O'Callaghan's Dublin-based South constituency population, while in North Clare it's 5%, in Kenmare an extraordinary 7%.
Shane McElhattonCORRESPONDENT
He accuses the Minister of being hell-bent on phasing out all accommodation support for the refugees.
Shane McElhattonCORRESPONDENT
He quotes figures showing the budget allocation for this support being slashed from over a billion euro in 2024 to a planned 177 million euro next year.
Ivan YatesGUEST
I actually was a great believer in Maggie Thatcher and Ronald Reagan.
Ivan YatesGUEST
I think they absolutely saved the Western world in terms of, I mean, you won't remember this, but Jim O'Callaghan and the strikes and the whole way socialism was going was a disaster.
Ivan YatesGUEST
We need another reset.
Ivan YatesGUEST
Trump is not that reset because he's full of bombast and he's gone down certain other routes, which I think are not right.
Stephen GleesonHOST
It's something that must be had, of course, and the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre do some brilliant work that has to be said too.
Stephen GleesonHOST
Were you happy, Helen, with Minister Jim O'Callaghan's response to this?
Helen WalshGUEST
Yes, I am.
Helen WalshGUEST
I'll tell you something, Stephen.
Vince TracyHOST
We consent.
Vince TracyHOST
The clip, funded by Ireland's Justice Department, sparked immediate backlash and the Justice Minister, Jim O'Callaghan, ordered the DRCC to take it down.
Vince TracyHOST
Two other videos from the We Consent campaign were also removed.
Vince TracyHOST
He said the video produced by the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre involving grandparents does not represent the views of the government.
Carl KinsellaGUEST
And that's the entire, 26 seconds of the ad nothing else really happens in the ad besides that so The reaction to this ad was enormous.
Carl KinsellaGUEST
I suppose most importantly, we have to point out that Minister for Justice Jim O'Callaghan himself went on Twitter and said that he and his department intervened to get this ad taken down.
Carl KinsellaGUEST
He said that it was demeaning to grandparents.
Carl KinsellaGUEST
He said that it was inappropriate.
Carl KinsellaGUEST
stuff like that.
Carl KinsellaGUEST
So ultimately, kind of shutting down the conversation that We Consent is trying to start, like, you know, Dublin Rape Crisis Centre and We Consent, they're obviously their interest is in giving, I suppose, families a framework by which they can discuss this very awkward thing, which and it is like, I mean, there's no denying it is awkward, like that is a difficult situation to be in if grandparents want to hug a child, which obviously traditionally has just been an expected thing for a very long time.
Carl KinsellaGUEST
But the child doesn't seem to want it you know there's obviously questions that need to be asked and you need to wonder why that's happening and I think that Dublin Rape Crisis Centre were just trying to provide a kind of a jumping off point by which those conversations could be had so for that conversation to be not only shut down but to be shut down in such terms by the Minister for Justice and for the Minister for Justice to kind of come out and give his own editorialisation of what's going on in the ad and kind of You know, to my mind, skewing what is actually in the ad, I think is it's a pretty, you know, Gary Gannon from the Sock Dems, he came out and he just said that it was he found it really chilling and really inappropriate that Jim O'Callaghan would intervene in this way in the, you know, the sort of, I suppose, the output of an NGO that.
Louise McSharryHOST
Yeah, I'm going to read his tweet, his blue sky post.
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