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- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)
Aidan Farrelly: I am watching my time. That is perfect. I thank Ms Duggan. I appreciate it. I will move on to the additional workload that is coming with regard to the 42,000 children. How much does Ms Duggan think that will cost the agency?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)
Aidan Farrelly: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)
Aidan Farrelly: Has that figure been requested from the Department of public expenditure or the Minister?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)
Aidan Farrelly: What will the nature of those checks be? Who will conduct them? Will they be phone calls or visits? How will they be done?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)
Aidan Farrelly: Am I right then that the priority will be that the first round of checks will be automated?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)
Aidan Farrelly: We are not guaranteed that every child or parent will be communicated with in these checks. The first port of call will be State services that we expect them to be engaged with.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)
Aidan Farrelly: Okay. For example, if 10% of those 42,000 children were flagged and Tusla said there was an issue, how would the agency have coped in 2024, if it had received 4,000 referrals, creating a whole new level of workload? Is Tusla ready, like its chair says? Is it resourced to the extent it needs to be to do this work? My concern is that these checks will potentially be an administrative...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)
Aidan Farrelly: My concern is that Tusla will be asking the teaching community, youth workers or others to make assertions and judgments. If no clear terms of reference are offered to them, it is a big responsibility when they are also burdened by the work they are involved in. I am flagging that as opposed to questioning it at this point because it sounds like, based on those terms of reference, that it...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)
Aidan Farrelly: They are, but they are doing enough. This is an additional-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)
Aidan Farrelly: Tusla said it did not feel it was warranted at the time, but now it does. This came as a request from the Minister, even though, potentially, there were no child protection concerns. The only related thing here was Covid-19, but now we are prioritising child protection concerns as the first cohort of people we are going to communicate with. It seems very ad hoc, and that is not a slight...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)
Aidan Farrelly: It is carried over from year to year.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)
Aidan Farrelly: I thank Mr. Smyth for his time.
- Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)
Aidan Farrelly: We have heard that housing is a priority, disability is a priority, child poverty is a priority and climate is a priority. They are all priorities until they are not. For this Government today, we have seen that, in fact, big business and protecting its profits are the Government's priority. The headlines in the run-up to this budget were consistent: an end to successive giveaway budgets....
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: National Treatment Purchase Fund
Financial Statements 2023: Beaumont Hospital Board (9 Oct 2025) Aidan Farrelly: I thank everybody for being here this morning. It is lovely to see Ms Brady again and I thank her for her time. I also thank Ms Coyle and her team for being here. My first question is for Ms. Brady. Was the decision taken lightly to pause NTPF funding at Beaumont Hospital?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: National Treatment Purchase Fund
Financial Statements 2023: Beaumont Hospital Board (9 Oct 2025) Aidan Farrelly: Has the insourcing resumed? Is the NTPF satisfied now to go back and begin insourcing at Beaumont Hospital again?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: National Treatment Purchase Fund
Financial Statements 2023: Beaumont Hospital Board (9 Oct 2025) Aidan Farrelly: What are the consequences for the other three hospitals that have been flagged as part of that 38-hospital review - Naas, Kerry and one in Dublin - arising from the fact they have not worked within the MOU? Have they been reinstated or will they be?