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

Mr. Fred McBride:

I am not going to argue with the Department here, but we have only seen the high level proposals for the new legislation. There will be a pre-legislative consultation process which we will want to participate in fully. I have views about the issue of the presumption of a GAL in every case.