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:

On 21 September 2025, we documented that there is a three-year-old in a special emergency arrangement but I have to put that into context. We had two large sibling groups that had to come into care. We made a decision that rather than separating all those children into different care placements around the country, we would place those young people together and put additional staffing, oversights, visits and all of that in place. The right thing to do was to keep the children together. Just to interpret that-----

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