Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú) | Oireachtas source

I understand that €90 million has been spent by the Department so far on special emergency arrangements.

Last month alone, 22 children went missing from State care. Previously, a 14-year-old girl who had been abducted by a criminal gang within minutes of being placed with Tusla was found one year later locked in a brothel. I try to raise these matters with the Minister, but he does not listen. A retired judge, Dermot Simms, tried to raise these matters with the Minister, but the Minister deleted his files, citing GDPR. A whistleblower tried to make a protected disclosure about unvetted care workers. Tusla tried to oppose that, but the commissioner has now ruled that Tusla must accept it. Last week on RTÉ radio, Tusla’s CEO stated that staff in SEAs were absolutely vetted. We now know from an article in The Irish Times yesterday that one company was providing falsified vetting documents to Tusla and that an internal Tusla report in July found that staff did not have up-to-date Garda clearances. The name of that company is Ideal Care Services. I understand that there is a Garda investigation into the matter. Has the Minister ever met the owner of that company?

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