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. Pat Smyth:

I do not have anything specific on that other than what Mr. Gloster has just said. The ongoing challenge for us, which we pointed to earlier, is that staff in residential services encounter assault and other issues that are uncommon in other work environments. A number of claims result from that. There are also historical claims, which go back quite a number of years and are still being dealt with by the State Claims Agency. The agency gathers a lot of data, which can be provided in quarterly breakdowns of the types of claims. That information is publicly available and we are quite happy to share that with the committee.