Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 19 January 2017

Public Accounts Committee

Report of the Accounts of the Public Services 2015
Chapter 11 - Guardian Ad Litem Service

9:00 am

Photo of David CullinaneDavid Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I am reading from the reasonableness check distributed by Tusla. I have to be very frank and state it is less of a check and more of an accounting exercise. How can Tusla really verify the activity billed, the narrative provided, the time billed for activity and the total cost billed for each invoice? Mr. McBride might talk me through how it works. All Tusla is doing is a desktop calculation of what is provided by the guardian ad litemand it is almost impossible for it to carry out any checks. With respect, would Mr. McBride agree it is less of a check and more of a totting up exercise?

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