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Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: National Treatment Purchase Fund
Financial Statements 2023: Beaumont Hospital Board (9 Oct 2025)

Catherine Ardagh: Is there an intention to roll it out on a wider basis?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vacant Properties (8 Oct 2025)

Catherine Ardagh: 15. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding paid out to date to vacant property refurbishment grant applicants; the number of homes which have been brought back into residential use from vacancy nationwide; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53739/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (8 Oct 2025)

Catherine Ardagh: 88. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding being provided for affordable housing under Budget 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53738/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Inquiries (7 Oct 2025)

Catherine Ardagh: 212. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider establishing an independent inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53562/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Inquiries (7 Oct 2025)

Catherine Ardagh: 213. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider designating a Department between her Department and the Department of Children, Disability and Equality that can establish an independent inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53565/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (7 Oct 2025)

Catherine Ardagh: 550. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the status of the proposed primary care centre at Curlew Road, Drimnagh, Dublin 12, including a timeline for when the project will progress to completion; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52943/25]

Community Pharmacy Agreement: Statements (2 Oct 2025)

Catherine Ardagh: It is a matter for the committee.

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

Catherine Ardagh: I thank the Chair. I am going to return to legal costs. I have some questions on the plaintiffs. I know the witnesses cannot give us a lot of background on this but can they confirm if it is the same plaintiff in all four cases or different plaintiffs? It is different plaintiffs. Why are some claims settled by Tusla and others by the State Claims Agency? There is delegated sanction for...

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

Catherine Ardagh: Therefore, as a matter of course, anything in relation to personal injuries goes straight to the State Claims Agency and anything in relation to governance or procedure, Tusla will try to deal with itself, is that correct?

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

Catherine Ardagh: Case 2 has two elements. One is a State claims element and the other is a Tusla element. Compensation is paid by the State Claims Agency for €100,000 and Tusla has paid €200,000. Will the witnesses confirm that is a personal injury claim for the State Claims Agency and a governance issue in relation to Tusla?

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

Catherine Ardagh: I note that no costs have been finalised for the plaintiff’s case for the two parts of those claims, for the State Claims Agency or the claim against Tusla, and that no costs have been agreed for case 4. Is it envisaged that Tusla will pay the costs and what are those costs? Will Tusla also pay the State Claims Agency costs as well as its own?

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

Catherine Ardagh: As a matter of form, does Tusla send its bills of cost to the Taxing Master?

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

Catherine Ardagh: Okay, and------

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

Catherine Ardagh: Apologies, I have very limited time. On the fourth claim, the costs were in excess of €870,000. Looking at it, without any background, it seems the €50,000 was well under the delegated sanction and the costs were multiples of the award. Can we see the bill of costs for this case? Is Tusla happy to share that with us? Did Tusla get that bill of costs reviewed and checked by...

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

Catherine Ardagh: Okay. On the cost that Tusla does not necessarily know to date, has it included in its financial records what it thinks it might be so it is not blindsided when it comes to a budget? Does it have a guesstimate per se of what it thinks the cost may be?

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

Catherine Ardagh: I understand that. We are discussing Daniel and his family and Kyran and his family. Those families will probably at some stage be reading our transcripts, so it is really important that we acknowledge them. We are talking about learnings from their deaths but that is no solace to their families, so I just want to say it is awful for them, their families and all those who cared for them. ...

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

Catherine Ardagh: How far on is Tusla in that review? Has it started?

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

Catherine Ardagh: The review of the 42,000 cases.

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

Catherine Ardagh: I think it was Ms Duggan who noted that PPS numbers are helpful because it means you can check when someone is checked into a system. We use it for our schools. Is Tusla working in co-operation with the Department of Social Protection?