Anne Rabbitte (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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I thank the Minister for joining us. It is always very good for the Minister to read her statement because she encompasses it all and touches on every aspect of why we are members of these committees. I applaud her for that because she brings energy to it and I love to hear her read her statements. I will repeat what I continually repeat and harp on about. Minus the ICT, are we on target for delivering the programme under capital expenditure? I am back again asking whether we are on target regarding Tusla staff. Do we have the key people to reduce what we already discussed, namely, the 50% in retrospective cases? Do we have the social care network in place to deliver services? When I talk about Tusla and funding, I also have to talk about the family resource centres. Is there funding through the Tusla mechanism to support the family resource centres or is there an increase in the budgetary requirements this year?