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:

Indeed, but all I am saying is that the current system we are trying to reform relates specifically to public law cases. It is the Child Care Act which deals with public law cases, which is all to do with the intervention by the State in the future of children. It does not refer to private law.