Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I will leave this issue because I will take it up by way of parliamentary questions. It is certainly nothing like what all of us are hearing from smaller providers. We do not want to end up with providers pulling out where there is a necessary service.

Last week, Mr. David Moloney, the Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, informed us that it offered Tusla the opportunity to take over Benefacts. That Department was told that Benefacts did not meet the data needs of Tusla. How was that offer presented to Tusla? What was required of Tusla or what resources would it have had to provide? How did the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth consider the analysis of what Tusla's data needs were? The representatives might take us through how the offer was presented.