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- 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...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: These were the recommendations made by the Comptroller and Auditor General. We could bring the Comptroller and Auditor General for a moment.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: Yes, it was about data gathering.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: Sorry, that figure of €125 is for what?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: Right. Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: Regarding the unpaid expenditure from 2018 to 2022, there is a yellow line on this page and it looks as though it is approximately €45 million for the guardians ad litem.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: How much was it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: The figure looks a bit higher on the graph that is before me.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: These are for legal expenses and guardian ad litem costs. If you go back to 2018, the figure was approximately €26 million or €27 million.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: Then it runs up to in excess of €40 million in 2022.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: Thank you.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: That is welcome progress. I thank the witnesses and staff of Tusla and the Department for attending and for supplying information in advance of today's meeting. I also thank the Comptroller and Auditor General, and Mr. John Crean from his office, for attending and supporting the committee. I take it as agreed that the clerk to the committee will seek any follow-up information and carry out...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: The public business before us this afternoon is as follows: minutes, accounts and financial statements, correspondence, work programme and any other business. The first business is the minutes of our meeting of 22 February 2024, which have been circulated to members. Do members wish to raise any matters in relation to the minutes? No. Are the minutes agreed? Agreed. As usual, the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: I have a question about the Food Safety Promotion Board. It had a total budget of €9.4 million in 2022.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: Six North-South bodies were set up under the Good Friday Agreement and this is one of them.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: I am open to correction but I do not think I have ever seen the Comptroller and Auditor General raising any issue regarding any of them in terms of accounts and financial statements.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: In general they seem to have their processes-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: Irish Lights is an example.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: Is the Comptroller and Auditor General's counterpart in the North involved?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: Do members want to raise any issues?