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:

We have commenced the creation of our own estates function so we are reducing our reliance on the HSE in that regard. That is a continuous process but it is reducing. We have our own estates staff and we are building that function. We have commenced our own procurement function, as I pointed out to Deputy Murphy. We are in the middle of a major ICT migration, post cyberattack, to a Tusla IRL system which is more or less completely independent. We would still be dependent on the HSE for two things, and it makes perfect sense that we would be, as part of the overall ICT system. We are expediting that and are a year ahead of time because of the impact of the cyberattack. We continue to be dependent on the HSE for the internal audit function. I suspect that will continue through 2022 but it certainly would be a desire of the board to establish our own internal audit function in the long term.

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