Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 1 July 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
General Scheme of the Guardianship of Infants (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion
2:00 am
Mr. David French:
Let us consider the hypothetical situation where a grandparent, the parent of the person who has been killed, wants to look after his or her grandchild and is being interfered with in the family law courts. That grandparent is not in the family law court and is not a notice party or a guardian, yet the person who is accused is in that court and frustrating the situation. The grandparent should be able to take the initiative. Where there has been a criminal verdict, the grandparent should be able to go to the family law court to try to get the guardianship suspended. CFA-Tusla and everyone else can do good work, but if there is someone in the room who is accused, they can frustrate the process and be awkward.
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