Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
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The Ministers, Deputies McEntee and Harris, are obviously working on the creation of this new agency, which will take over the functions Tusla currently has in terms of funding for refuges and services around the country. We used to be politically responsible for Tusla doing that. The political responsibility for that has now gone to the Department of Justice.

Once established, the actual job of doing that and the funding will be taken away from Tusla and go into this new agency. My Department now has no accountability role in that. Once the agency is established, Tusla will have no role in that either. In the interim period, however, Tusla will continue to have that role until the agency is set up.

Tusla is accountable to the Department of Justice for that portion of its spend. There is a memorandum of understating in that regard. In the domestic, sexual and gender-based violence, DSGBV, field, leave is basically the one area that remains the responsibility of this Department within the work-life balance directive.