Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

In the aftermath of the Ryan report and the appalling history of this State in terms of the history of child abuse and the failure to protect children, Tusla was set up with a great stated commitment to child protection. The HIQA report on just one administrative area details a chronic failure to adequately protect children in need of support and particularly 234 high priority cases who have not even been allocated a social worker and another 500 medium priority cases who have not been allocated a social worker. I ask the Minister to provide the figures but if this is replicated at national level that represents a chronic failure on the part of Tusla to provide the child protection services that the children need.

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