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:
There is no doubt at the moment that all those things have fed into processes we have and ensuring we can strengthen those processes. Obviously, in a child protection scenario, there are greater demands for background checks for different people. That information was not known when people sought and searched for it at the time of the appointment of those companies. It was information that I am not aware was available to people. Part of the challenge is that unless he was disqualified from being a director in Ireland, there is a very serious challenge for any organisation to not employ that company on that basis, even if they knew. However, we have changed-----
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