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:

No, they are people who turn up unaccompanied to the International Protection Office and claim to be minors or the international protection officer considers them to be minors. They come to us. We can only use psychosocial assessment to try to determine whether they are under 18. It is a concerning area. We will be before the Department of justice the week after next to discuss the EU migration pact and consider the role of different agencies and the work that needs to be done on age assessment under the International Protection Act.

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