Joan Collins (Dublin South Central, United Left) | Oireachtas source

If there is a system that works why break it? Why bring it into a bigger organisation that does not have, but would like to have, the expertise that RCNI has? Why was RCNI not brought into the system to give and maintain that information in a proper way?

Since January, Tusla has not collected the information as set up by the RCNI, which is recognised internationally. The European gender equality groupings are considering how the data are processed, collected and used. I cannot understand why this has happened. Maybe the Minister can intervene and meet up with the RCNI and Tusla. No one has even seen the review the Minister talks about. RCNI did not have an opportunity to respond to, challenge, raise issues around or expand on, it. Tusla has always received information it required from the RCNI on time, except once. I hate when there is one side saying one thing and another saying something else. There is an opportunity here to bring the groups together and examine comprehensively how the information will continue into the future to design policies for this important area.

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