Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 27 October 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report

9:30 am

Photo of Colm BurkeColm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

That is not true and I have clear evidence that it is not true. I have plenty of examples where it did not happen. I will give one example of a person who was contacted but was unable to take the call at the time because they were on another call. When the person rang back they reached an Army barracks which stated it knew nothing about the matter. The person then contacted the local authority, which contacted the Irish Red Cross. The Irish Red Cross stated that the person was not on the list and then added the person to the list. The local authority offered to inspect the property the following day but the person was not available. When the person telephoned the local authority six weeks later, the local authority stated it had already inspected the property when, in fact, it had not. Nine months on, the local authority has not come back again since. That is only one example that I have. I do not believe there is co-operation on this. This needs to be worked on. I am not blaming the Department but pointing out that there seems to be a lack of co-ordination and no one person seems to be taking charge of this issue.

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