Gerard Craughwell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I am not sure that the Ombudsman is an appropriate authority either to inspect. I have an issue with these agencies, organisations, Departments, etc. They should ultimately be answerable to a committee of the Oireachtas and they should be overseen by a committee of the Oireachtas. That is what we should be doing. There is a tendency to try to off-load our responsibilities to other agencies. For the sake of argument, if you were to set up an oversight body to look at Tusla, that oversight body would have to come before this committee or some other committee and be answerable for the work it does. It is my view that organisations as important as Tusla should be directly answerable to a committee of the Oireachtas-----