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

Paul McAuliffe: Is it that there is no family available or that they would not be suitable?

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

Paul McAuliffe: Let me ask both bodies a very simple question. Do they believe that by increasing the supports for foster care parents, we would reduce our reliance on these communal settings and the costs that result?

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

Paul McAuliffe: That is the point I am making.

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

Paul McAuliffe: By increasing the payment for foster care parents, we would reduce the cost of and the reliance on residential care.

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

Paul McAuliffe: Does the Department believe that is the case?

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

Paul McAuliffe: The direct question I am putting to both bodies is whether they believe that by increasing supports for foster care parents, it will reduce the cost of and reliance on residential placements and communal placements. The answer on the Tusla side is very clearly “Yes”. That is my direct question to the Department.

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

Paul McAuliffe: No. Let us be clear. The CEO said there was a limited placement in regard to special care arrangements, but she was very clear in relation to residential placements that it would have an impact.

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

Paul McAuliffe: Many TDs, when they were supporting those additions to the programme for Government, would have been doing it from the perspective of compassion for the foster parents. What is very clear from this discussion is that it is also an immediate value for money issue for the State.

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

Paul McAuliffe: It is the allowance and supports. I accept that.

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

Paul McAuliffe: Both require resources. We have to move away from the reliance on these residential units towards a foster care system that works. The only people in the room who can do that are Tusla and the Department.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (2 Oct 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: 88. To ask the Minister for Health the immediate plans to increase the current resources at the Mater hospital to reduce the waiting time for those seeking an oncology appointment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52563/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (2 Oct 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: 110. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans, within the next year, to increase resources nationwide to address the wait times for those seeking an oncology appointment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52564/25]

Investment in Sport and Sporting Infrastructure: Statements (1 Oct 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: As a colleague just noted, one can say very little in two minutes. I will start by saying something very easy, which is to thank the Minister of State, Deputy McConalogue, for the investment my constituency has seen, in hurling, football, soccer, tennis and so many different areas, through the sports capital grant. It has made a real difference to clubs in my area. He will be pleased to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (1 Oct 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: 204. To ask the Minister for Health the supports available for persons who suffer from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and require oxygen 24/7; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52464/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Health Services (30 Sep 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Health will next meet. [46882/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Health Services (30 Sep 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: The Taoiseach may be aware that there are four capital projects currently under way in Beaumont Hospital which are at different stages. They include a new emergency department, a new 95-bed ward block, a 64-bed critical care unit and an extension to radiation and oncology departments. Will the Taoiseach give an assurance to the House that these projects will be funded and will be done in a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Peter McVerry Trust: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: Okay. Why were the witnesses willing to attend this committee meeting in advance of the accounts being published, but not to attend the Committee of Public Accounts?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Peter McVerry Trust: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: I would argue that the queries and questions this committee had in relation to this issue were very similar to the questions that will be put by members of public accounts committee. Perhaps we will discuss them when the witnesses come before that committee. That puts me in an invidious position in some ways because I am not clear as to the areas I should properly question the witnesses on....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Peter McVerry Trust: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: Yes, from the religious order.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Peter McVerry Trust: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: So, there were funds that were restricted by the nature of how they were donated to the Peter McVerry Trust?