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:

I met Commissioner Harris and the Policing Authority last Friday to explore those opportunities with regard to community safety and to make sure Tusla is front and centre of those discussions. It is back to the interagency piece. That is as much about our co-ordination and collaboration with An Garda Síochána and youth justice, as it is with the HSE and other providers of services. Tusla wants to be at that table. I sit on a group that was set up by the Department of the Taoiseach relating to the pilot sites it is looking at for the integration of agencies within particular communities such as in Dundalk, Rathlkeale, County Limerick and different areas. Tusla certainly would have senior people at those tables because we totally see-----

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