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:
Yes. Now, that cost would have been over €900,000 and we have taken significant action in 2024 to drive efficiencies through the implementation of a new standardised rate card for that. Where that is not comparable, where you are looking at the cost of a mainstream residential placement, there could be three or four young people in that placement so the cost reduces because obviously there is not the same core level of staffing or the same bill. These are young people where there may be significant concerns around complexity of behaviour, engagement in substance abuse and maybe engagement in some criminal behaviour and, by being in a single occupancy where they are not living with other peers, they are able to cope better in that kind of arrangement.
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