Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 2 October 2025
Public Accounts Committee
Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency
2:00 am
James Geoghegan (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
What is frightening to me - I say this as a parent of three kids - and the public is that, only in June, the chair of Tusla, writing in the foreword of the annual report, said that after ten years, the agency had never been better equipped to meet the complex challenges rushing towards it. How does that statement stack up with what is now being carried out?
Ms Duggan did not say it explicitly, but unless I am mistaken in what she said, she has acknowledged that there is at least a risk that, when Tusla carries out this review, there may well be other missing children.
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