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- Public Accounts Committee: Report of the Accounts of the Public Services 2015
Chapter 11 - Guardian Ad Litem Service (19 Jan 2017) Seán Fleming: The judge.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report of the Accounts of the Public Services 2015
Chapter 11 - Guardian Ad Litem Service (19 Jan 2017) Seán Fleming: Does he or she pick the guardian ad litem?
- Public Accounts Committee: Report of the Accounts of the Public Services 2015
Chapter 11 - Guardian Ad Litem Service (19 Jan 2017) Seán Fleming: The judges have their own local list.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report of the Accounts of the Public Services 2015
Chapter 11 - Guardian Ad Litem Service (19 Jan 2017) Seán Fleming: I know there appears to be a difficulty getting the names and I know good work has been done by other people. Does the Courts Service have a role in obtaining this? Can Dr. Lynch answer that? Is it the case that the judges, because they are operating due to the judicial independence, do not have to pass this information on? This should be well known.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report of the Accounts of the Public Services 2015
Chapter 11 - Guardian Ad Litem Service (19 Jan 2017) Seán Fleming: Yes. Dr. Lynch has done his best to identify 65, but are there more out there? Is he satisfied that the list is complete?
- Public Accounts Committee: Report of the Accounts of the Public Services 2015
Chapter 11 - Guardian Ad Litem Service (19 Jan 2017) Seán Fleming: The list of 65 is complete.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report of the Accounts of the Public Services 2015
Chapter 11 - Guardian Ad Litem Service (19 Jan 2017) Seán Fleming: I will ask Dr. Lynch another question, and this is just for public information. The opening paragraph of the Comptroller and Auditor General's report refers to the fact that the views of the child are held in public family law proceedings. Are guardians ad litemappointed in private family law cases in the family law courts?
- Public Accounts Committee: Report of the Accounts of the Public Services 2015
Chapter 11 - Guardian Ad Litem Service (19 Jan 2017) Seán Fleming: This is important. Will Dr. Lynch explain this to the public? I will speak as a layperson. When we hear about vulnerable children, custody battles and so on, we assume that family law courts are generally in cameraand that much of the proceedings in question are held in camera. Dr. Lynch now seems to be saying this guardian ad litemservice is only for the public courts service. Surely,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Report of the Accounts of the Public Services 2015
Chapter 11 - Guardian Ad Litem Service (19 Jan 2017) Seán Fleming: Who pays for the child views expert?
- Public Accounts Committee: Report of the Accounts of the Public Services 2015
Chapter 11 - Guardian Ad Litem Service (19 Jan 2017) Seán Fleming: Dr. Lynch will understand that I am an elected politician and not an expert on this, but I am getting a little frustrated now. I am hearing that we are only talking about a segment of cases involving vulnerable children that are heard in public. There could be many a case involving a child in an in cameracourt, a family law court or the juvenile court. Is there a guardian ad litemappointed...
- Public Accounts Committee: Report of the Accounts of the Public Services 2015
Chapter 11 - Guardian Ad Litem Service (19 Jan 2017) Seán Fleming: I will ask Dr. Lynch to come back to the committee on this. Will he come back to us with a report explaining to us who looks after vulnerable children in the Irish Courts Service? That is the job of his Department and Tusla.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report of the Accounts of the Public Services 2015
Chapter 11 - Guardian Ad Litem Service (19 Jan 2017) Seán Fleming: We have had a long discussion, and I think 90% of the people had assumed we would cover vulnerable children in the courts. We are only now hearing the guardian ad litemservice does not cover juvenile courts or family law courts, that these experts will be established, that families who possibly cannot afford to pay for their legal costs in the family law courts are being told to pay for...
- Public Accounts Committee: Report of the Accounts of the Public Services 2015
Chapter 11 - Guardian Ad Litem Service (19 Jan 2017) Seán Fleming: Whatever legislation the Department is bringing forward, if it does not deal with all vulnerable children before the courts, it is only part of the issue. I ask the Department to look at the bigger picture. Maybe I am getting everything wrong here, but from what I am hearing, we are only touching one aspect of this.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report of the Accounts of the Public Services 2015
Chapter 11 - Guardian Ad Litem Service (19 Jan 2017) Seán Fleming: Custody.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report of the Accounts of the Public Services 2015
Chapter 11 - Guardian Ad Litem Service (19 Jan 2017) Seán Fleming: Those issues can be as important to the children-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Report of the Accounts of the Public Services 2015
Chapter 11 - Guardian Ad Litem Service (19 Jan 2017) Seán Fleming: I ask Dr. Lynch to talk to me about the juvenile court. That involves the State. It involves the State prosecuting children-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Report of the Accounts of the Public Services 2015
Chapter 11 - Guardian Ad Litem Service (19 Jan 2017) Seán Fleming: -----in family courts.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report of the Accounts of the Public Services 2015
Chapter 11 - Guardian Ad Litem Service (19 Jan 2017) Seán Fleming: However, they are normal professional solicitors.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report of the Accounts of the Public Services 2015
Chapter 11 - Guardian Ad Litem Service (19 Jan 2017) Seán Fleming: They may not have any specialist ability-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Report of the Accounts of the Public Services 2015
Chapter 11 - Guardian Ad Litem Service (19 Jan 2017) Seán Fleming: -----to deal with children of 15 or 16 years of age. Are they not covered by the guardian ad litem service at all?