Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 11 October 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Wards of Court: Discussion

9:00 am

Photo of Clare DalyClare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent)
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Some of our questions will really be for the Courts Service. Consider the cases highlighted before the Committee of Public Accounts and which were flagged. In one case, it was anticipated the funds would run out in two years. I believe there were six wards at the time in question in respect of whom the funds had fallen below €10,000. Fifteen were identified at that stage as potentially not having enough funds to provide for lifetime needs. What has been done since then that the witnesses know of to provide for the contingencies that were highlighted some years ago?