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Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Alan Kelly: I will not name it.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Alan Kelly: I wan to know how this happened. We have a scenario where an organisation was sub-contracted by Tusla, which, I presume and as outlined earlier, is under deep pressure. Documentation was not screened, there were issues with Garda vetting and yet the organisation involved got close on €10 million over a number of years from Ms Duggan's organisation. How in the name of God did this...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Alan Kelly: I get all of that. How were they contracted in the first place? It is all very well saying-----

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Alan Kelly: Wait one second. It is all very well saying that internal audit picked this up. Sometimes, internal audits are not only about money; they pick up on processes and all that sort of stuff. How was this organisation contracted in the first place?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Alan Kelly: Did Tusla get that because it was told there was an issue or did it find it organically by means of the double lock?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Alan Kelly: So nobody told Tusla about the organisation in question.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Alan Kelly: I have only a few minutes left. Ms Duggan said that Tusla has this double lock, but this is very scary stuff. I appreciate the situation Tusla is in. I have outlined that. In many ways, Tusla has been let down by the Department and by the Department of public expenditure. There are issues there that we will dig into it. I will certainly dig into them. When it comes to this matter,...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Alan Kelly: What does Ms Duggan-----

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Alan Kelly: I ask Ms Duggan to be honest. What could the Department do to help Tusla more?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Alan Kelly: They need the inter-agency piece followed up by funding-----

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Alan Kelly: -----in capital, and also investment in pay and conditions.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Alan Kelly: Why cannot Tusla get staff?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Alan Kelly: To be honest with Ms Duggan-----

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Alan Kelly: From my experience, this work is very hard.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Alan Kelly: I have personal knowledge of this. The pay simply is not worth the lifestyle. That has to be addressed. Maybe Tusla is going about it with this inter-agency piece and it will bubble up from it, but that has to happen.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Alan Kelly: That is a broader issue. Recently, and I will not cross the line, in the Supreme Court there was a number of orders whereby it was held that Tusla would be held in contempt in relation to two cases of two children where there was a failure to apply for special orders in relation to them. This is also pretty bad. The issue that is emanating from this is that Tusla could not find places....

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Alan Kelly: How is Tusla going to deal with that? Will Mr. Ó Conaill or whomever outline what is being done to put that on a statutory basis and make it in some way functional?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Alan Kelly: That sounds good.

RTÉ: Statements (28 Feb 2024)

Alan Kelly: No, I watched it.

RTÉ: Statements (28 Feb 2024)

Alan Kelly: I do not know the Minister well personally but I have always found her to be fine. However, I have to say that I have found her to be very much a hands-off Minister. I said previously that when she equivocated in relation to people paying their licence fee that was a sign of how she was handling this issue, and it was not good. I also said previously at the public accounts committee that...