Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 29 February 2024

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency

9:30 am

Ms Kate Duggan:

Yes. The main modelling we use is the CSO data on age profile and demographics and the indices we get from lots of different agencies, such as Pobal, on homeless poverty and children in direct provision. We are looking at lots of different factors. We are predicting an ongoing increase in the numbers being referred but what we had not expected, and this shows the complexity of the demand that is there, is the very real number of troubled young people aged between 15 and 17 we are seeing who require a response from us in either our child welfare or child protection space.

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