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. Gerry Hone:

No, we have not had bad outcomes. What we are detecting more, and we are in close consultation with the Garda on this at senior level, is trafficking within the group. We had a cohort of children from Vietnam coming into the country this year> Trafficking was a significant factor in a good few of those cases. We have to be very careful, obviously, because it is easier for trafficking to occur in that vulnerable group. There are our cross-Border and international social services connections. We have got the new European legislation coming out in terms of the European pact, so there will be more consistency from one country to another and, hopefully, better communications built in as part of that to actually combat some of the vulnerabilities.

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