Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 19 January 2017

Public Accounts Committee

Report of the Accounts of the Public Services 2015
Chapter 11 - Guardian Ad Litem Service

9:00 am

Dr. Fergal Lynch:

The Deputy makes a important point. It is not at all ideal that the pair for the system should be one of the entities involved in it, in that we are the subject of the care orders. Nobody would have any argument with that. I believe that needs to change.