Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 6 July 2021

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth

National Action Plan for Childminding 2021-2028: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Bernard Gloster:

To come back to ICT resourcing, the Deputy and I had a long conversation during the cyberattack. As I told her at the time, we are building the Tusla url domain, which will be a domain exclusive to Tusla. I have already approved significant expenditure to build server capacity on this to comprehend all of the volume we will take on in the coming six months and to have good solid capacity for future needs, such as those Ms McDonnell spoke about and which we are speaking about today. The majority of early years providers had to re-register at the same time at the end of 2019. We know exactly what it can mean regarding frustration for people and pressure on an ICT system. In the round, it worked quite well. I am very confident we have the ability, knowledge and expertise. The issue that will arise will be timing.

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