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Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: Deputy MacSharry is next.

Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: Page 37.

Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: That is outsourced.

Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: The Deputy has used seven minutes.

Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: Who published that document?

Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: I wish to put a few questions to Mr. McBride based on the documentation presented to us, for which I thank the witnesses. Tusla has 112 family resource centres around the country. It might send us a map of those. I have a feeling that they sprung up wherever people felt like they should spring up and that there are areas with significant needs that have no centres. Counties could be...

Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: People might be aware of an issue. Staff in family resource centres are employed by private companies.

Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: Generally, though, the staff are-----

Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: When some staff pursue matters of their pay and terms and conditions, they try to bring Tusla before the Workplace Relations Commission, but Tusla is steadfast about not doing so. Is that correct?

Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: I wish to go through page 2 of the financial performance summary. It deals with pay and staff numbers. The table on page 2 shows that, from 2015 to 2016, there was an increase of 136 whole-time equivalent staff. This is contained in Tusla document No. 817A.

Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: Yes. Between December 2015 and the end of December 2016, there was an increase of 136 whole-time equivalent staff, but Tusla only had an additional 18 in 2017. Why has it ground to a halt? I will read on to complete the question. The final paragraph in that section below the table reads:Currently, Tusla's Human Resources recruitment function is progressing 304 posts that are at varying...

Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: Is that one of the biggest turnovers for any State organisation?

Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: Why was there such a big turnover? There were 250 staff hired, so next year if Tusla recruits the extra 145 posts at that rate it will not even match the levers.

Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: Reading that, one would think it is great news, but more people are leaving than are being recruited.

Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: How many does Tusla hope to have before the end of this year?

Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: Mr. McBride is saying that Tusla is well on the road.

Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: Does the HSE have a similar retention problem? I would not have thought so.

Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: To hold on to what an organisation has.

Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: I want to go to the accounts on page 33 and I will also deal with pages 34 and 35. On page 33, there is a heading on note 2 regarding net operating surplus. Regularly at the Committee of Public Accounts people give out about the level of expenses of board members and senior executives, and it makes great headlines, but I want to say, and I suspect it will not be reported, that on page 33,...

Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: I am paying Mr. McBride a compliment.