Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 9 October 2025

Committee on Drugs Use

Kinship Care and Care: Discussion

2:00 am

Photo of Tom BrabazonTom Brabazon (Dublin Bay North, Fianna Fail)
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To follow up on that, is Ms Murray aware whether the courts have power in respect of somebody who, for example, gets out of Oberstown? As I understand it, the courts are functus officio and do not have any further role. There is a gap there that needs to be looked at.