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- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Contracts (5 Mar 2024)
Catherine Murphy: 588. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide this Deputy with a copy of the contract that exists between his Department and the operators of a facility that does not include visibility of monetary sums and terms (details supplied). [10571/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (5 Mar 2024)
Catherine Murphy: 595. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 503 of 31 May 2022, if he will provide a breakdown of report origin in respect of sexual abuse referrals to Tusla, by an organisation and county in 2020 and to date in 2024. [10611/24]
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Castletown House and its demesne receive about 1 million visitors per year. Most visit the demesne. As the Tánaiste knows, the State was not successful in purchasing the land adjoining the house, where the only viable vehicle access is located. The historic village access is not viable, according to the OPW, and there appears to be an unwilling seller. I understand a CPO involves a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: I welcome the witnesses. As I have even less time than Deputy Kelly, I ask the witnesses to keep their responses as short as possible. To follow on from the line of questioning on the issue that has been in the news, was the new internal compliance unit that has been put in place the unit that found the issue here or was there something before that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: And after that-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: How many people are in this compliance unit?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Okay. We are certainly not going to talk about a particular agency or organisation with which there is Garda involvement. How many other organisations have been excluded as a consequence of this unit being set up and investigating that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: That was over what period of time?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Is there an ambition, instead of using agencies, to set up an actual public service?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Are those State or agency beds?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: It can be seen here that it is costing anyway but in fact it is more than a financial cost. There is a potential cost to very vulnerable children.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: What is the annual cost?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: We are looking at very vulnerable children.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: In regard to the family resource centres, very quickly, I had a look at the map. I am not familiar with family resource centres because there is not one in my constituency. Yet it is a constituency with high levels of growth and the age profile is very young. That is similar to the likes of County Meath, Fingal or south Dublin. I was looking at the spread and it does not seem to grow at...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: We know what needs to happen. Is it practically happening?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: We have just heard about the huge amount of money it costs annually.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Yet it does not transfer across. Let us say those behavioural issues get to the extreme where there has been a lack of therapeutic care. At a much lower level, that could be managed without it costing potentially €700,000 in the most extreme case.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Yes, I know.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: I am aware Ms Duggan is not here to answer that. There are, however, silos here and the system is not working in the best interests of very vulnerable people who need care. On the increase in whole-time equivalent staffing, Tusla was able to recruit people at administrative and managerial grades, whereas the number of social workers fell. That obviously means the caseload rose. The...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: What is the caseload like and how has it changed in the last couple of years?