Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 11 October 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Wards of Court: Discussion
9:00 am
Mr. Seán Quigley:
I will say a few words before passing over to my colleague. We acknowledged earlier that we could have done more and we want to do it. We are now issuing statements to all wards of court. I acknowledge that where wards of court or their families made contact, comprehensive historical data was provided. We are accepting that we can do better and we are now starting that process of issuing statements. There is no limit with any of the family members with respect to going back to whenever the money is first given into court, and we have done that on occasion. We are happy to share that information. We are open on that front and we have put our hands up to say we could and should have done better over the years. It was not that we were hiding anything but it was purely a resource constraint on our part in how to prioritise what we could do with the limited resources available to us.
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