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

I met the community and voluntary providers of residential care in January and discussed these issues in detail with them in terms of funding. I have set out in detail the additional funding I have been providing to Tusla in order that it can enact its residential care strategy and can put additional beds into the Tusla sector so we can reduce our reliance on special emergency arrangements. I will look at whether I served on the Fingal joint policing committee with this individual. It is a committee of about 40 individuals that meets on a quarterly basis. I will examine that. I certainly have never spoken to him on the issue of care.

I am very happy with, and had the Deputy been here a couple of weeks ago when we had the question about this I would have set out to him directly, the various steps I have taken over the last year around focusing on the safety of children in care.

It is a political charge -----

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