Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 19 October 2017

Public Accounts Committee

Tusla - Financial Statements 2016

9:00 am

Photo of Bobby AylwardBobby Aylward (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am sorry I was late and missed much of the presentation. We have a had a busy day here. We were here until lunchtime and I have had to do a few other things in between. I welcome the witnesses. For an agency that was set up only four years ago, Tusla has a big spend of €669.473 million in 2016. It is a lot of money for an agency that is only in its infancy. There is a heavy responsibility and onus on Tusla having regard to the care of the children of the State albeit it only deals with children who are deprived or in want of its services. There is €13.56 million for the capital programme. To what does that relate? Is it the purchase of buildings for family resource centres and things like that?

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