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:

No, that is probably not the case, but there is an increase underneath that to an extent. We changed the financial system in 2023. There was a huge programme as part of the HSE systems where we have a section called the integrated financial management system. There was a huge focus on ensuring that purchase orders were created for all purchases in advance of the money being spent so that there was much more control over that, rather than invoices arriving in and people running around looking to see what was happening. We also got rid of a lot of what are called "uploads", whereby the payments were done off the system and then uploaded. What we have got there is a lot more information. It is an indication of a lot more basic information coming into the system that we can use in a better way.

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