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:

That is because those services were never clearly looked on as services that Tusla had control over because we were involved in accessing those services with the HSE. It is similar to many other corporate-type services or strategic pieces and it is only over the past two years that Tusla has had the resources and the control over those spaces. It was not done as part of the initial setup. Like many of the other pieces we came across in 2014, we just took what was in place and accepted that, and it was really only over the past two years that an identification of these different elements has come to the fore because there was no resource prior to that. This represents another area in which we are trying to develop and create a service. Our commitment to that is much stronger now than it had been previously.