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- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)
Anne Rabbitte: -----when Tusla only targets children under five years of age, a huge proportion are left behind.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)
Anne Rabbitte: Can the witnesses talk about the reform taking place within Tusla at the moment? How are they ensuring the reform within Tusla combining social work and family support includes good knowledge and understanding? Actually, we are protecting our social workers from burnout because now we are expecting more of them. I do not think this reform is being received positively, from what I am...
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)
Anne Rabbitte: Tusla had the opportunity to capture the single-point data. Congratulations. Why did we then not break it down to ethnicity?
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)
Anne Rabbitte: I am glad, because four or five years ago they were using paper and did not even have a laptop going into the field. I welcome that, but for the purpose of this committee-----
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)
Anne Rabbitte: I would love to.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)
Anne Rabbitte: All right Chair. I will need straight answers then, if that is okay. The first question concerns how many children receive the student accommodation assistance fund.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)
Anne Rabbitte: Is that in 2025?
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)
Anne Rabbitte: That is a straight answer. How many are in receipt of funding under the employment support scheme?
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)
Anne Rabbitte: It is the same people.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)
Anne Rabbitte: Is this the scheme in Cork? Is that to do with the social work scheme?
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)
Anne Rabbitte: How many?
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)
Anne Rabbitte: Yes.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)
Anne Rabbitte: For the Traveller community.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)
Anne Rabbitte: It is for all.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)
Anne Rabbitte: But the whole purpose would be to include or entice people with the lived experience and that is another model way in. How many are on it?
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)
Anne Rabbitte: That is not the fault of Tusla but it is a missed opportunity. The expansion of that scheme was discussed here last week. If we are to attract people from the Traveller community, they might not be able to afford the accommodation or to travel. There was talk about other technological universities such as Limerick. One of our colleagues also mentioned Galway. The spreading out of it to...
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)
Anne Rabbitte: The witnesses told me it was 20.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)
Anne Rabbitte: I totally understand. How many of the 245 foster carers who were approved in 2024 were from the Traveller community?
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)
Anne Rabbitte: It is very disproportionate when one looks at it.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)
Anne Rabbitte: Something has changed because the Traveller community was really good at supporting each other. What has changed? Have it become too formal and bureaucratic? When we talk about Tusla, we talk about regulation - no disrespect but the witnesses know what I mean. They tick the boxes; that is it. There is nothing wrong with it. I am not saying anything like that. That is how it is....