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- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Tusla, the Child and Family Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (21 Oct 2021) Matt Carthy: For foster carers, that is, the families who take in these children, what is the difference between being employed directly by Tusla and private care providers? Is there any difference regarding the remuneration or expenses they receive? Is there any difference in the practical realities for these foster carers?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Tusla, the Child and Family Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (21 Oct 2021) Matt Carthy: It is the same.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Tusla, the Child and Family Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (21 Oct 2021) Matt Carthy: Is the cost to Tusla the same?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Tusla, the Child and Family Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (21 Oct 2021) Matt Carthy: What would that mark-up be?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Tusla, the Child and Family Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (21 Oct 2021) Matt Carthy: The cost is €23 million.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Tusla, the Child and Family Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (21 Oct 2021) Matt Carthy: What does that amount of money reflect in respect of a mark-up?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Tusla, the Child and Family Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (21 Oct 2021) Matt Carthy: Essentially, therefore, these private companies are receiving an additional €200 per child in costs.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Tusla, the Child and Family Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (21 Oct 2021) Matt Carthy: I appreciate that as regards people in existing care scenarios. Does the agency ever make contact directly with those placements, or the families who are engaged in the placements, to see whether they would be happy to move from a private care operation under Tusla's auspices?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Tusla, the Child and Family Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (21 Oct 2021) Matt Carthy: Does the agency make contact with the parents, to use that term, to see whether they would move from a private scenario?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Tusla, the Child and Family Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (21 Oct 2021) Matt Carthy: I am just trying to get to the crux of why a private company would be able to source host families whom Tusla could not source directly.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Tusla, the Child and Family Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (21 Oct 2021) Matt Carthy: Personal reasons do not explain it. I do not understand the scenario because in the reality of the situation it should not make any difference to the families concerned.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Tusla, the Child and Family Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (21 Oct 2021) Matt Carthy: Mr. Gloster referred to there being very few. How many have moved from operating directly with Tusla to a private agency over the past three years?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Tusla, the Child and Family Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (21 Oct 2021) Matt Carthy: Tusla gave a number of 13%, which represents 480. That is growing. In 2014, for example, 6% of foster carers were private.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Tusla, the Child and Family Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (21 Oct 2021) Matt Carthy: Okay, but 480 is the number of foster carers. Is that number correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Tusla, the Child and Family Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (21 Oct 2021) Matt Carthy: How does that absolute number of 480 compare with, say, five years ago?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Tusla, the Child and Family Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (21 Oct 2021) Matt Carthy: It is increasing.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Tusla, the Child and Family Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (21 Oct 2021) Matt Carthy: Does Tusla plan to review the services that are being provided, even for no other reason than efficiency? We have determined there is an additional cost of €23 million for private care. Does Tusla plan to carry out an efficiency review to ensure those families who are operating directly with Tusla have an improved experience to encourage others to go down that route as opposed to the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Tusla, the Child and Family Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (21 Oct 2021) Matt Carthy: I seek clarification on the issue of foster care provided by private companies. Does Tusla have an objective of reducing the reliance on private companies for providing foster care?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Tusla, the Child and Family Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (21 Oct 2021) Matt Carthy: Yes. Based on the figures we were given, the reliance on private companies has increased by more than 10% since 2017. If Tusla's objective is to reduce that level of reliance, then it is not achieving its objective.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Tusla, the Child and Family Agency - Financial Statements 2020 (21 Oct 2021) Matt Carthy: I accept that, but on the basis of what the witnesses have told me today, I infer that the experience for the child is not different if he or she deals with a foster carer directly appointed by Tusla or with someone who has come through an agency. In terms of financial remuneration, the conditions in which the family operate are the same. The only difference is the additional cost of...