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:

No, what I am saying is that we were faced with some practicalities with regard to how to organise the system and provide it in the best possible way. While it is not best practice in the sense of seeing a potential conflict of interest between the payer, Tusla, and the providers of the service, namely, the guardians ad litem, I do not think there has been any suggestion that Tusla has acted inappropriately or has deliberately restricted payments from guardians ad litemwhen it did not like what they were doing.