Thomas Byrne (Meath East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The witness has raised another point. I never dealt with Tusla or that side of education until last year in Ashbourne. I never had cause to do so, but now I have. How often does the Department meet Tusla? I worry that the Department of Children and Youth Affairs and Tusla are on another side with information about children who are not able to get into school. In some areas, and I will not name them, it tends to be children whose parents' first language would not be English. There are significant information disadvantages in many cases. How often does the Department meet with Tusla and the education welfare officers?