Ms Kate Duggan:

One of the important responses to that is that we are now going to have a domestic violence worker at every front door in Tusla. We are considering widening the front door of Tusla in terms of the multidisciplinary workforce that Mr. Gloster referred to. In five of the areas where we are quite concerned, where we had unallocated cases regarding which we knew there were significant needs, particularly owing to hidden harm and domestic violence, we established a new care pathway for the children. The children might previously have been described as “high need but low harm”. Those are often the children to whom we did not get to respond in a timely way and whom are now seeking to respond in a much more timely way with new teams to keep them safer at home.