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

Photo of Anne RabbitteAnne Rabbitte (Fianna Fail)

I want to be clear on that. I have a question on the Bill for the officials. In Part IIA of the Bill, section 12C (1) relates to an interim suspended guardianship order. Can someone explain that paragraph to me? It reads:

Where a guardian of a child is convicted by a court of competent jurisdiction (in this section referred to as the ‘convicted guardian’) for the offence of murder or manslaughter of any person who was, at the time of the commission of the offence, also a guardian of the child, then the court concerned shall make an order suspending the guardianship rights of the convicted guardian (in this section referred to as an ‘interim suspended guardianship order’).

Can what that means be explained to me?

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