Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Is the view of the guardian ad litem, which is informed by his or her professional qualifications and social work, occasionally at variance with the views of persons in various State organisations who have similar qualifications? Where I am coming from - I do not mean to be deliberately coy - is that our experience is informed by constituents' representations and these are difficult cases. I find it particularly traumatic to try to navigate the various State agencies involved. Sometimes it arises that people with similar professional qualifications have polar opposite views. The role of the court is to determine where the balance of the child's best interests rests. In Ms Quinn's experience are there often conflicts about what is in the child's best interest between people who have similar professional qualifications?