Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 19 October 2017

Public Accounts Committee

Tusla - Financial Statements 2016

9:00 am

Photo of Seán FlemingSeán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That is fine. The final issue is that one of the most basic rights of a child in terms of child protection is a roof over their head. Page 44 of the report deals with homelessness. It is utterly inadequate. It states that homeless liaison was established in October 2015 to ensure Tusla meets its statutory obligations and organisational objectives in the area of homelessness. How many children are homeless tonight? Tusla is the child protection agency. It talks about its achievements in 2016 on the next page. The first is that Tusla has agreed a protocol. The next one is that it has had briefings relating to a protocol, and the next one is that it has established networks in the family support context. I get zero sense that the agency is doing something out on the front line. Is it all just outsourced to some other agency?

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