Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 29 February 2024

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency

9:30 am

Ms Kate Duggan:

Yes. We have to apply the benefit principle but, where we have a concern, it creates a risk. We have to make sure that anybody we suspect may be over 18 is not placed in an arrangement with anybody under 18. We have had to establish separate units. If there is a concern about a person's age, he or she is placed in a different unit.