Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 18 December 2018

Joint Standing Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Islands

Seirbhísí trí Ghaeilge: Tusla

4:00 pm

Mr. Patrick Smyth:

I will try to take those questions from the bottom up. On what we are setting out to do, it was mentioned that we have a realisation on the development of Tusla's corporate services that since the agency was founded, it has relied heavily on the HSE, where it came from, to develop. One of the services and areas that the Chairman correctly identified that we were involved in was the Irish language services and we operated within the HSE's framework for that for the first number of years. We have tried to step out of that over the past two years in terms of developing our own-----