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:
Ultimately, we want to integrate it into our mainstream services but because it is so new at the moment, we have to develop the expertise and the skills within it because of the particular nuances of that service. We are building capacity, safety and protection within it as we go.
It is also worth stating that the vast majority of the young people who present here are doing extremely well. They are out there engaged in education and in local communities and are doing extremely well. I do not know whether this was said, but private providers actually prefer to care for that cohort because they present less complex behaviours a lot of the time. They are doing well, they are here and they want to go to school and to get work. They want that. The vast majority do very well when they come to Ireland.
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