Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The point made about linking maintenance with seeing the child is so important, insightful and helpful. I cannot believe it is ten years since the children's referendum. I had forgotten. Attempts were made to give much of that referendum effect through the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015. What I hear from constituents, and my first contribution in the Dáil was about section 47 assessments, is how these assessments can be used and abused, the calibre of them and how people conducting assessments have to be trained in recognising coercive control. I made the point in 2020 that it was not necessarily apparent that children participating in assessments were giving a clear view, when a report could come out that said something very different. I do not know whether the section 47 situation has improved over time. I see the representatives indicating that it has not. That is a universal "No". I will hand that issue over to Ms Kiernan.