Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 21 October 2021

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Tusla, the Child and Family Agency - Financial Statements 2020

9:30 am

Mr. Bernard Gloster:

We did not get the full amount of what we wanted across the Estimate profile. I will take two or three significant ones figures. A little while ago we talked about building additional public residential care capacity. I will be able to do some of this in 2022 but I will not be able to do as much as I would have wanted. This will slow down the pace at which we get to address the imbalance of private provision.

We indicated a need to bring the community and voluntary sector to a more sustainable level of certainty in future. The cost of this was approximately €10 million or €11 million at the time we were doing the Estimate. We will be able to do less of this. We will be able to do something towards their sustainability but we will not be able to do all we would have wanted to do.