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:

Very much so. One of the functions of the national service body will be to engage in appropriate training. The training will not be just purely straightforward induction training but it also should be to ensure that all of the guardians ad litemthe service body uses are fit for purpose, so to speak. As the Deputy stated, there is a cultural issue here, which guardians ad litemhave to be very sensitive to.