Verona Murphy (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

We know why. I have little time and I will try to be cordial. If I get the answers, I will be cordial, and if I do not, I will be like I always am. I am asking this on behalf of the children and their families who are not getting services.

I will outline one instance. I am dealing with an eight-year-old, who is physically bigger than his mother and his siblings, who constantly beats his mother to the point where she is afraid her life and those of her children are in jeopardy. The terminology used by Tusla is that four lives are being lived as one. Nobody else gets to do anything because all the focus is on the child. That family cannot get respite. All the stakeholder agencies are involved. This is just one case I am referencing. Why is the system in such disarray? We set up the CDNTs for all the right reasons. What we have not been able to do is staff the model. Is it a resourcing issue? That is a binary question. Is it money?