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Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: So they relate to staff members in Tusla. In terms of the decision not to disclose anything related to these four cases, who looked for that? Was it in Tusla's interest or in the interests of the claimants not to disclose anything to do with these cases?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: There was one other thing Ms Duggan said that really surprised me. She said that they managed to mediate the costs effectively in the end. Is Ms Duggan really saying that?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: But given the €49,999, and when balanced against €800,000 in legal costs and a €400,000 report, how could anyone say that the process was mediated successfully?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: Why did it take Ms Duggan to come in to make the decision? What went wrong here? How did Tusla allow this to go on for seven years to the point where over €1.2 million was spent on lawyers dealing with something that when Ms Duggan came in as CEO she said "Ah lads, we have got to sort this out, let us get this done"? Were there rows going on at a senior level about this? What were...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: There are very few cases, and one could probably count them on one hand, where the amount of damages awarded would be €50,000 and the legal costs associated with the case will be €800,000. It is very few. Something terrible went wrong here. It is very regrettable. The witness mentioned transparency at the outset and it is very regrettable from our perspective, and that of...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: On that issue, the witnesses said earlier that there are 534 separated children in IPAS.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: Ms Duggan said there is at least one child that has been missing under her definition since 2023 and another two or three in 2024. She was going back and forth about how the new system is that Tusla treats them like a child in a mainstream setting and do not take them for their word that they might be going over to the UK. I presume the kids are around 15- or 16-years-old.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: They are obviously not 18 because they would not be with the agency if they were.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: That is not really your job.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: The Department of justice has the facilities, the capacity and the Internet to allow it to look through it.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: Sorry, I did not mean it like that. It is Tusla's job to care for the child, but in terms of the interrogation of the presentation-----

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: Tusla cannot carry out background reviews, and Interpol and-----

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)

James Geoghegan: I see that. It is a bit concerning, and I hear the point that there is a lot of nuance here because some of them could be adults. For most of them, the assumption is that they are going off to the UK. Have there been bad outcomes in terms of children who have gone missing from Tusla's system, namely the 538 children in special separation or whatever it is called? Is there a European-wide...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Older People: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

James Geoghegan: I thank the witnesses for appearing before the committee for this informative discussion. At our most recent hearing, we had advocates for young people and people who were young. I am not going to suggest that there are advocates for old people and people who are old here. We are all advocates for the issues that the witnesses are raising. I am interested to hear, and I asked the kids the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Older People: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

James Geoghegan: Sorry, if it is okay I might go round the table because I am have limited time, but Ms Casey raised some serious issues.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Older People: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

James Geoghegan: How does Mr. Mellon find using AI? I do not know if he is a technical whizz in any event, but does he find it easier or harder using AI versus other technologies?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Older People: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

James Geoghegan: When Mr. Carroll mentioned the Age Action programmes he is doing, he is speaking presumably about elderly people who are interacting with digital literacy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Older People: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

James Geoghegan: Over 55. I do not know when people are called elderly any more. I will not go into that space.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Older People: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

James Geoghegan: What is their experience of interacting? What does Mr. Carroll observe?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Older People: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

James Geoghegan: I am out of time. Thank you so much.