Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 10 July 2025

Committee on Children and Equality

Engagement with Tusla

2:00 am

Ms Kate Duggan:

I reassure the Senator that Meitheal is a fundamental part of what we are doing now and will be doing even as we change our services. We offer family support and early intervention, as Mr. Hone mentioned earlier. We are standing up 90 teams. There will be at least three family support and early intervention teams doing the work that is being done today but under a different structure. We need it to be more equitable across the 90 areas. CFSNs are there and nothing is changing. We value that work. CYPSCs are there and will not change. In the reform programme, all that is good will not change. It is just a restructuring as we divide out our areas a little differently. Mr. Smyth might talk to the Senator about the issues she has raised about sustainability and payment.

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