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:

It is legitimate to raise those questions but a child in a special care arrangement, for instance, would cost close to €1.5 million per annum. You are not dealing with arrangements that are going to be cheap no matter how you put it. The one kid to be managed 24-7 and have two people there at all times takes almost 11 people on full-time wages for a week.

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