Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 13 June 2019

Public Accounts Committee

2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs

9:00 am

Mr. Pat Smyth:

No, it is not. It is one of agencies that came together to form Tusla. The 120 or so FRCs that has been established for approximately 15 years prior to that had a genesis in the need that was there. To be fair, Tusla has worked with that structure. Other agencies fund FRCs and they are all separate and independent agencies in their own right. What has happened in recent years is that the CYPSC structure has increasingly been used to define need. It brings together county councils, our workers and the local agencies that are involved in services. The funding of FRCs has been increased somewhat in recent years and additional services, which in many cases are more outreach services, are starting to be developed from those family support agencies where they extend the service to another area of a county that is not being served yet.

There is an overall question for us on the services that we provide. As I said earlier, we provide approximately €150 million through different strategies and funds that provide services that are very much about child protection and others that are more about education and other services but again-----

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