Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 4 November 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
General Scheme of the Children (Amendment) Bill 2024: Discussion
2:00 am
Anne Rabbitte (Fianna Fail)
This is addressed more so to the Department or anybody who wishes to answer it. When one piece of legislation is addressed, it sometimes has an unintended consequence that another piece of legislation does not keep up with it and actually it ends up with a gap. It is wonderful that we are addressing quite a number of the issues and we have taken some good points to address them. However, if we do not then talk to the Department of children and if it is not addressing the Child Care Act 1991 at the same time, it makes it very difficult for anybody working in the Courts Service to actually have an understanding from the Child Care Act of what is happening on the justice side of it. What engagements have been going on to ensure that the Department of children is involved? There is a role for Tusla in all of this. There is also a role in terms of understanding the Act. I feel that progress will be made here, but that there will still be a connection gap. Mr. Egan is nodding, so I will ask him to answer first.
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