Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We have had a long discussion, and I think 90% of the people had assumed we would cover vulnerable children in the courts. We are only now hearing the guardian ad litemservice does not cover juvenile courts or family law courts, that these experts will be established, that families who possibly cannot afford to pay for their legal costs in the family law courts are being told to pay for these experts, and the only cases we have been talking about are the vulnerable children - Dr. Lynch used the phrase - in public. These are only the cases we know about. What about all the hidden cases? The Department is only dealing with part of the problem.