Seán Crowe (Dublin South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The July report by HIQA found services provided by Tusla in Dublin South-West, which coincidentally is my constituency, had to deal with a chronic shortfall of staff, and inadequate resources were in place to meet the demands of the service and the needs of the children.

Many of us who represent that area have said that the system appears to be broken. Some of the staff would even admit that privately. Has there been any improvement in this? Are a higher number of children being referred due to child protection issues, or are welfare needs being warehoused, because there are not enough social workers to take on their cases?