Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 9 October 2025

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community

Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (Resumed)

2:00 am

Photo of Anne RabbitteAnne Rabbitte (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

All right. Where is the strategy within Tusla for prevention? If we do not target prevention, we cannot reduce the number of the 6% of children who are in residential, respite or foster care. Funding has gone from 4% of the budget to 2% of €1.3 billion is being spent on care for an ethnic minority grouping to prevent them entering the care system.

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