Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 25 April 2023

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth

Possible Enhancement of Child Protection Powers of Tusla: Discussion

Ms Kate Duggan:

I might let Mr. Brophy take that question. Even currently, we are engaging strategically with An Garda Síochána regarding a different organisation. Our obligations are around, as the Senator said, the individual assessment of the abuse but where we have information and further information known to us. We have certain powers and the Garda have certain powers where there is something of concern to them. We saw that the encouragement and getting them to complete an investigation into that whole organisation and how they handled those allegations of abuse was going to be the best way forward to truly understand what was going on in that organisation. In the situation we are in at the moment with a different organisation, we are also working with the Garda on that. We liaise with the Garda.