Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 21 June 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs
Foster Care Services: Discussion (Resumed)
9:00 am
Mr. Cormac Quinlan:
To further clarify that, in April of last year Dr. Shannon engaged with us because he was proposing an extension to the audit to follow through on some of the work and we participated in that with him throughout that discussion on a second stage but we were never interviewed about any of the 91 cases that he reviewed. No staff were ever interviewed about what was the follow up on any of those matters from a Tusla perspective. He met us on 2 November and read segments of the report but did not go into any detail of the 91 cases. He was more focused on some of the issues he touched on in his report in respect of legal issues around use of section 12 and how it fits within our structures and services and particularly in respect of the use of Five Rivers and some clarifications on that. He sought some information from us on the contract we have with Five Rivers and some data and information about the current emergency out-of-hours service, which we provided to him. That was the extent of the engagement on that issue.
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