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:

Our residential care strategy, which was developed in 2022, looked at identifying an additional 110 beds over a three-year period. That is what we felt we could deliver publicly in terms of the timeline to build and to recruit. The war in Ukraine and the increase in global movement has come. We have actually set up almost 200 additional beds over that period, but those beds-----