Mr. Bernard Gloster:

I do not want to speak for the Garda Commissioner, but I understand that the predominant focus of the Garda in respect of work that is associated with Tusla is on the domestic violence element. My understanding is that the Garda will deal directly with the callers. Where the Garda would need to deal with the service provider, all domestic and sexual violence services are provided by the 60 organisations that we fund and I presume that Garda would deal with them if it needed to, but I believe individual contacts are being made with the caller, not with ourselves. The Garda is aware that, because of our other working mechanisms, it could bring us in if, out of any work like an analysis of the 999 calls, it encountered a situation that it felt was relevant for us to be involved with or aware of.