Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 2 October 2025

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency

2:00 am

Photo of Joanna ByrneJoanna Byrne (Louth, Sinn Fein)

-----Tusla will have the PPS numbers and so on from that engagement. That is very welcome and positive.

I am running out of time. On the 42,000 children and the cases that were closed during the pandemic, I welcome that Ms Duggan hopes the review in that regard will conclude on 31 March. All going well, that metric will be met. What procedure has Tusla planned for cases where it cannot make contact with a child? If there is an incidence of a child who is not attending school, has not been to the doctor and has not had their development checks and there are concerns about that child, what procedures does Tusla have in place and how does it move forward?

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