Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 2 October 2025

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community

Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion

2:00 am

Photo of Séamus McGrathSéamus McGrath (Cork South-Central, Fianna Fail)
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I apologise to Ms Joyce and Ms McDonagh. The public accounts committee has a meeting at the same time so I am trying to double-job. As a matter of interest, Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, was before that committee today. It is relevant to what we are discussing here today as regards child welfare and so on. I would be interested in hearing the witnesses' views on the Travelling community's experience of interaction with Tusla. We just had that agency before the public accounts committee discussing various issues. It is very relevant to the witnesses as well.