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:

I am certainly open to looking at that but obviously there is a key element of State responsibility given that these are public law cases. The State would have to satisfy itself that these sorts of arrangements would be appropriate. I will be honest with the Deputy - the Bill at the moment, as she will see, is very much focused on the national service provider with the structures that I have just outlined.