Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We are talking about learning. My next point is in the same space. What learning can Tusla do from the following? I have a specific case in mind but will speak generally rather than to get into that. I refer to circumstances in which a couple with their own children take in a couple of foster children. It happens all over the place. Let us say a foster child in the care setting does something inappropriate to a younger family member and Tusla is phoned. The complaint I get is that because children in foster care are in the Tusla system, Tusla is more concerned about the fostered child than about the child at the receiving end of the mistreatment. Is that the case? When Tusla arrives, I am sure the thinking of the social worker on the ground is that Tusla has a child in foster care and that child is the organisation's priority. However, it might be leaving a problem in the house. Does Mr. Smyth get the point? How does Tusla handle that?