Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 22 February 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs

Governance and Control Procedures in Tusla - Child and Family Agency: Discussion

9:00 am

Mr. Jim Gibson:

A really good example of where that occurs is where there is marital breakdown. Sometimes parents or their partners make allegations in respect of how the parent who has custody of the child or children is looking after them. We face that on a fairly regular basis within our service and would make definitive decisions about those cases. Many of those cases are also before the family law court. Under section 20 we would provide reports to the court in respect of that.