Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

In the short term, the Department of Justice is engaging with Tusla. In the medium term, it will actually come out of Tusla and into this new agency. The Magdalen fund was also originally in the Department of Justice. When the first transfer of functions happened in October 2020, it moved over to this Department. The Ombudsman looked at the original Magdalen scheme and made a report on that, which broadened out access to the scheme somewhat. It is primarily on the basis of more people being in contact with the Magdalen scheme and applying to it that the original estimate we had in this year’s budget has been exceeded. We are just looking to make sure we have the sufficient amount.