Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 21 October 2021

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Tusla, the Child and Family Agency - Financial Statements 2020

9:30 am

Mr. Bernard Gloster:

The full function of the children services regulation team, which covers all of our crèches and preschool inspection as well as alternative care and private inspection, has in excess of 100 full-time equivalents. The number specifically on residential is smaller than that. Predominantly it is crèches.

The point I was making earlier, not to put too fine a point on it, is that the bottom line is I should not be inspecting them. I can do as many inspections as I want, and I have very good staff who do so, but from the point of view of governance I should not be buying the service-----

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