Mr. John Dunne:

It is through the amending Bill, but it is more generally behind it and goes back quite a long way. Take the wards of court. Much of the impetus for this seems to have been focused, initially at least, on changing and fixing the wards of court. It is a flawed system rooted in archaic law but, to be fair, it has improved beyond all recognition in the past decade. I will give the Senator an example of what I still find rather extraordinary. Part of the idea of wards of court is that when people who do not have the capacity to manage their own affairs and are given a major award of money, the court establishes the wardship to manage the money and safeguard the person. There were a number of wards of court whose money disappeared in 2010.