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:
It is important to say we are now the State agency with the second highest level of violence, harassment and aggression against staff, second as I understand it to the Prison Service. In terms of incidents or assaults, if we take our children's residential services, we are looking at 1,169 incidents in 2025 to date. We have had 1,169 incidents of serious assault against staff members in our services. That is not widely recognised in respect of Tusla. People see it within the Prison Service. In terms of the work we are doing, we have made significant progress on reducing the impact of those assaults. Based on what we have done and the reductions we have made have, approximately 48%, we have been asked to talk to other State agencies so they can learn from what we have done. If we look at----
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