Ms Mary Farrell:

The wards-of-court area is very wide and, as seen in our submission, it covers so many strands. There are problems in each of those strands. We would have believed that, because of the Courts Service coming on board, we would be going into that earlier and that some of the issues that exist would have been resolved by now, but they are ongoing. To take the funds in isolation would do a disservice to the wards because there are bigger issues associated with the system, based on its being so old. The work is being done within that archaic system. We are looking for a judicial review or inquiry into the overall wards-of-court system.