Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 19 January 2017

Public Accounts Committee

Report of the Accounts of the Public Services 2015
Chapter 11 - Guardian Ad Litem Service

9:00 am

Photo of Josepha MadiganJosepha Madigan (Dublin Rathdown, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Sorry, 2016. Back in February 2015, I think it was, Mr. Gordon Jeyes, then chief executive of Tusla, said that the GALS system was outrageous. That was a year earlier. Why was nothing done then? We will talk about the future, but what I am interested in is whether it was the involvement of the Committee of Public Accounts that prompted this sudden reform of the GALS system. Why was it not done before this?

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