Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 2 October 2025
Public Accounts Committee
Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency
2:00 am
Ms Kate Duggan:
There is now, across the Department of Social Protection, the Department of public expenditure and reform - different Departments - one single record or one client view or one client record - I am trying to think of the right name. I keep saying this, but we are very lucky as an agency that in the past two years we have completely digitised our services in-house, on time and under cost. Because of that, we are now going to be able to do this in a much more automated and cost-effective way, which is important. Of course, the issue that is the most important is making sure that these children are safe and well and that no child is unaccounted for. We hope to be able to have, for example, direct access into school roll call systems and attendance systems. We are just working out that level of the IT element of it to support a much more efficient use of having the time for the face-to-face and the-----
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