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:

I will clarify one piece first. We also have our own residential settings. My colleagues can explain the service imperative there. In the case of our statutories, as we call them, which are our own services, they are slightly more expensive than the bought-in services, for a number of reasons, which can be lined up. Once a child is in a residential setting and there is a need for the child to go into a residential setting, that is a very different space to the situation of a child who is just going to be in a foster care setting. I will just clarify that point.

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