Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

On the matter of extra funding from my Department, as I said earlier, we made Covid contingency funding available. An extra €2 million has been put in this year specifically for Covid-related demands. The final tranche of that is being released at the moment. Tusla held it back for the Christmas period knowing the need for demand. A further €2 million Covid contingency will be available for next year from January.

As regards the timeline for the audit, we just put out the tender documents and we are reviewing them. A nine-month timeline was set out in the programme for Government. We are still hoping to meet that. It might go a little bit over that but we would hope that early next year we will have that audit complete. Then we will be able to bring forward the action plan to review it with the Minister for Justice, Deputy McEntee.

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