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- Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: As a person in charge of this organisation, what assurance can Mr. McBride give us? Can he say 50%, 60% or 80%?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: In respect of the moneys that are going to almost 1,000 public bodies. I will come back to the issue of care in a minute.
- Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: By the end of 2018.
- Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Tusla will by then have sufficient staff to ensure that compliance is 100% and it will not be worried about public appointments.
- Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: When does Tusla plan to go from almost two staff to the staff that it requires? How many staff does it require?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: How many are in place?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: How many are required?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: So it is hoped to have all those staff in place and everybody compliant by the end of next year.
- Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: All the staff will be in place.
- Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Where in Tusla's accounts would I find the amount of money allocated to domestic violence in terms of dealing with it, providing safe places and also preventing it? Where would I find the sum which Tusla, as the responsible body, has allocated? While Mr. McBride is looking for those notes, where would I find a statement in respect of the crisis which SAFE Ireland has outlined? Its...
- Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I am referring to the SAFE Ireland document. While Mr. McBride is looking for his figures, this is the context in which I am asking for them - the situation outlined in this document in respect of domestic violence. I am not apportioning any sort of fault. I am simply trying to elicit how Tusla, as an organisation, is dealing with domestic violence. Where do I find the amount of money...
- Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I see that list. I compliment him on the context he has given. He has provided details and the list, which I why I am able to move on from those questions. How much money is given out? What is the total budget?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I would love it today actually. I am normally very patient in respect of witnesses coming back to me, but this is a major crisis. I have raised it repeatedly in the Dáil, as have other Deputies. What is the allocation for domestic violence?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: There is a figure, and that money is then given out to various organisations such as those Tusla has listed here - the Galway Rape Crisis Centre, Domestic Violence Response Oughterard, the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre and so on. Does all the money go out to those listed organisations or does the money allocated to domestic violence go anywhere else?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: It goes to these listed organisations.
- Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: That is okay. It goes to staff who administer the services. When the witnesses get the figure for me, it will be the figure which goes out to these organisations.
- Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Where is Tusla's role in responding to the crisis which has been highlighted to the committee?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Where was the €1.5 million invested?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: As the body responsible for the protection of children, would Tusla accept that there is a major crisis if these figures are accurate?