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Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: There are nine in to utilised. When does Tusla hope to have the staff?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: Okay, it will take a year.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: Is some of that as a result of physical works to the house-----

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: -----both capital works and staffing issues?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: I will refer to a company - I have to be careful with this - and what has been reported in relation to fabricated Garda vetting, fabricated references and fabricated accounts of conversations with fictitious people who do not exist. Has Tusla involved An Garda Síochána in its investigations of some companies?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: We will not go any further into that because it is in the hands of An Garda Síochána. I want to ask about the budget. The budget has increased but as I understand it, it has been reported that Tusla has looked for an extra €260 million. Is that correct?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: I know that Tusla has to ask for enough. It got in the region of €100 million. Is that correct?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: What types of additional changes were Tusla not able to make because it received approximately €150 million less than what it needed?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: Was that at the end of 2023?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: What percentage was that? Would it have been 60%, 70% or 80%?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: It was to make up the shortfall.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: Therefore, €60 million was needed because of private accommodation.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: Mr. Smyth will obviously have to do some forecasting for the rest of the year.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: He will be looking at where the pounds, shillings and pence will fall. Is there a possibility that any part of the services will be frozen, stood down or have to be suspended, given current budget levels?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: Does Tusla have a particular area of urgency?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: Does that include the unaccompanied minors?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: Two thirds of them are unaccompanied minors coming from abroad.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: That is the point I was making earlier and this needs to be followed up on.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: They arrive on Tusla's doorstep. I ask Mr. Delaney or Mr. Ó Conaill to come back to the committee with a note on what will be actively done now to work with the Department of Justice, which is in charge of the IPO, and the Department of Foreign Affairs. Those two Departments might send us back a note in the next two or three weeks or so. What steps will be taken now? What will be...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: That is very timely. Can Mr. Delaney come back to the Committee of Public Accounts with a short synopsis of the measures that will now be taken? This is a crisis situation that Tusla is trying to deal with and it is clear that it is causing problems. I want to ask about the guardian ad litem, GAL, scheme. The Comptroller and Auditor General made recommendations regarding the financial...