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

Mr. Fred McBride:

It has nothing to do with cost. That is currently the case. Judges throughout the country currently choose not to use guardians ad litemfor their own reasons. I was just commenting on the potential proposal within new legislation that there would be a presumption that a guardian ad litemor whatever we end up calling them would be appointed in every case unless the judge decides there are reasons not to do so. I was making a comparison with the opposite.

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