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- Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)
Bobby Aylward: I might ask a few short questions.
- Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)
Bobby Aylward: I am sorry I was late and missed much of the presentation. We have a had a busy day here. We were here until lunchtime and I have had to do a few other things in between. I welcome the witnesses. For an agency that was set up only four years ago, Tusla has a big spend of €669.473 million in 2016. It is a lot of money for an agency that is only in its infancy. There is a heavy...
- Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)
Bobby Aylward: What is the structure of Tusla? Is it Dublin-based and then spread out around the country or is it regional or county based? I am from Carlow-Kilkenny. If I want to get in touch with Tusla in the morning, is there an office in Kilkenny or Carlow? It is doing an important job all over the country, but what is its structure? Is it like the HSE and based everywhere?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)
Bobby Aylward: It was stated that the 112 family resource centres were mostly privately run. Are they run by private concerns with which Tusla has contracts? What is the structure there?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)
Bobby Aylward: Are they funded by Tusla?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)
Bobby Aylward: Totally.
- Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)
Bobby Aylward: I am referring to children alone - to the children end of it. Tusla does not mix adults and children in the one resource centre.
- Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)
Bobby Aylward: Are they not places to stay, though? If a child is removed from a situation of domestic violence for his or her own protection, is he or she not placed in a family resource centre?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)
Bobby Aylward: Are resource centres like this available everywhere in the country?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)
Bobby Aylward: Tusla was set up four years ago because of cases where neglect was permitted to continue by State agencies. In my area, the Grace case famously happened and we all know about that. Is Tusla able to guarantee that nothing like that will happen today? In the Grace case, a neglected child was left in foster care for years and years without anyone doing anything about it. It was ignored...
- Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)
Bobby Aylward: The Chairman asked about homelessness, which I understand local authorities are responsible for. However, if children are being neglected because of homelessness, is there a role for Tusla to play or an influence it can bring to bear? I always mention my local authority of Kilkenny County Council. Can Tusla approach a local authority and say a particular family with perhaps three or four...
- Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)
Bobby Aylward: And Tusla uses that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)
Bobby Aylward: Is the school completion programme, involving funding of €144 million and 900 payees, related to the roll-out of the early education school? I may have asked the wrong question. Can the witness explain it to me?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)
Bobby Aylward: What is the school completion programme?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)
Bobby Aylward: Does Tusla go in to schools to check on these issues?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)
Bobby Aylward: It also liaises with local schools and principals.
- Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)
Bobby Aylward: Is that at primary school level?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)
Bobby Aylward: Is it mostly done at primary school level?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)
Bobby Aylward: And secondary schools. Tusla goes in to schools to speak to teachers and principals to ensure-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)
Bobby Aylward: Is Tusla called in by principals and teachers or does it go into schools on its own initiative?