Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 2 October 2025

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency

2:00 am

Mr. Pat Smyth:

It is carried over. Just to reassure the Deputy, the processes over the last three years have improved immensely in terms of the checking of this issue. To give some background, we are part of the same payroll system as the HSE. It manages the 100,000 employees down there as well as our 5,000. In common with other shared services systems for state services around the world, there is an element of delay that causes these overpayments. Effectively, this concerns what happens where information is not received around staff leaving for things like unplanned leave or other absences. This is what is the basis of it. We have put in a lot of training and processes to improve the situation. I think we are seeing an improvement on that over the last year. We expect the balance to reduce as the years go on.

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