Seanad debates
Thursday, 2 November 2006
Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee Stage
1:00 pm
Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
While I accept the Senator's point, special consideration would not be given to a pre-existing period of voluntary custody in the event that a child became problematical. The reason is that if the child has become difficult, the State must measure the parent's capacity against the period of time the parent parented a difficult child. Therefore, we stick to the five-year period.
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