Ruairí Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

As the witnesses said earlier, when you engage, the big thing is the complexity of issues. Tusla came before the committee on children earlier. The representatives spoke about Tusla and the organisations it referred people to. We also met a number of those organisations at the committee and they said that the number of referrals from Tusla was through the roof and that they had to deal with those. There is so much complexity, and there are so many cases, including where early intervention did not happen, that it has become a question of child protection, never mind support. It is like the witnesses said. Services are, to a degree, just holding cases at the minute. Does Mr. Ferron get that sense across the organisations the National Youth Council of Ireland is involved with? I am talking about both complexity and Tusla referrals.