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:

It is going for procurement on the basis that it is, I think, the fastest and most expeditious way of putting a national service provider in place. However, the Government decision also includes scope for establishing a separate public body, giving it to the new family court system when that is established or putting it in the place of an existing one. This is, if one likes, an interim measure.