Jim Daly (Cork South West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Is it possible to specify it further? As I understand it, they are not consulted in any way in the vast majority of cases. Foster carers will tell one, and I am trying to depersonalise this, that they have no role in this and that they are told it is a matter between the State and the child. It is my experience that there is a clear and deliberate intention to exclude foster carers from the deliberations regarding care orders. This might present an opportunity to deal with that.