Alan Farrell (Dublin Fingal, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

How does Tusla support childcare workers in performing their functions and in adhering to their moral and legal responsibility to report issues of non-compliance with Children First guidelines to it, regardless of whether those workers identify themselves? How do we support them in that process? I am referring to the protection of employment. A low-paid worker who sees something abhorrent and picks up the phone might lose his or her job. He or she might be the only person in the room and it would, therefore, be evident that he or she reported the incident. How are the State, the Department, the committee and Tusla going to protect such workers?