Katherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I will do that if I can. I appreciate and value the Deputy's comments on the way forward for Tusla. I agree with her and it is what I am working towards. When we work with an organisation that has more than 4,000 employees, and which the Deputy knows is in transition with its leadership at executive and board level, the option is to work with the organisation and do the analysis. It is about asking the board and executive to put in place plans and ask the executive to be accountable to the board and the board be accountable to me. That is what I am doing. I share the impatience of the Deputy and I wish it could happen more quickly. It is my hope, given that various plans have been put in place and the way in which I am trying to intently monitor or seek accountability from the board, which will ask the same of the executive, that things will change.

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