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:

The High Court is the final arbiter. To place a child in the UK, the guardian ad litem, who is the independent representative, along with our own social workers, and an assessment by the HSE, CAMHS or mental health service psychiatrists would be required there. It is the decision made by the High Court to place the child in those placements, so it is not a decision that Tusla moves somebody abroad.

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