Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 20 June 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs

HIQA Report: Engagement with Tusla

2:00 pm

Mr. Jim Gibson:

I will take the question on why the child is still waiting. When Tusla was established, specific psychological posts that were to come over to the new organisation were not transferred. A memorandum of understanding was put in place under which psychology would stay within the Health Service Executive and provide services to Tusla. We all knew at the time that psychologists within the HSE were overburdened with referrals-----