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:

We have quite a comprehensive review programme with all the agencies we spend money with. We have a very strict compliance process that we put in over the past ten years and that has been enhanced. For Peter McVerry in particular, prior to the issues that came to be disclosed with Peter McVerry, we had three governance meetings per year. We were looking at a specific fund of money that pertains to kids who are coming to the end of care and some aftercare. That is where a lot of its money is spent. It provides residential spaces for that. It is probably easier to identify because it is a slice there. We are happy that the money that was spent there has been fully accounted for.

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