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

Joe Neville: What are the figures from a management perspective?

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

Joe Neville: From a salary perspective, how much would the cost of that be?

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

Joe Neville: It would be great if we could follow up.

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

Joe Neville: I know I am jumping around between topics, but it is just in order that I can get a full view of things. How many children are currently waiting to be allocated a social worker?

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

Joe Neville: What is that 20% of?

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

Joe Neville: It is 20% of 20,000.

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

Joe Neville: It is 4,000.

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

Joe Neville: I know.

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

Joe Neville: What would the average waiting time be?

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

Joe Neville: Even roughly or anecdotally, how long could the waiting time be? Could it be three months or four? I know every case will be different. If someone started in the process in the morning, how long might it take?

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

Joe Neville: So no one will be left sitting there.

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

Joe Neville: That is fine. I am only asking the question to fill in the gaps in my knowledge. It is no problem at all. I am struggling with some of the legal costs. Did we, or I should say the State - and I suppose there is a royal "we" to this aspect - spend over €870,000 on a case where we gave less than €50,000? Am I right about that? On whose side was that the cost?

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

Joe Neville: What were our costs?

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

Joe Neville: It was €1.2 million on top of the €870,000, so that would be €2 million.

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

Joe Neville: Obviously, it was far in excess of what was paid out. That is fine.

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

Joe Neville: I am just curious about the front-line staff versus the administrative and management aspect.

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

Joe Neville: Yes, but Ms Duggan will see why we have to raise the issue as well.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (2 Oct 2025)

Joe Neville: 321. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the plans to adjust the social housing income limits upwards to reflect house inflation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52691/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (2 Oct 2025)

Joe Neville: 324. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his Department plans to extend financial supports for widowers who face financial challenges as sole caregivers supporting their children through school and college; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52694/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Records (2 Oct 2025)

Joe Neville: 416. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the introduction of ehealth records; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52698/25]