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

On the latter point, what I always say is that if a family resource centre is in difficulty, the staff should talk to their local Tusla point of contact. Tusla sees the family resource centres as very much the front line of its public engagement and we want to support them. There is no specific hardship fund but Tusla will usually work to find a solution for family resource centre, if necessary.

I will urge my Department to work with Tusla to make provision for the application process as quickly as possible. We have not had a new round of family resource centres since 2018 so I was really pleased to announce that yesterday and to push that forward. We will make information about how an application can be evidenced and who can bring forward that information as quickly as possible and I will make sure the Deputy is informed once we have that information.

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