Sorca Clarke (Longford-Westmeath, Sinn Fein)
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168. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the authority by which Tusla can compel attendance at medical, psychological or intervention therapies. [42464/20]

Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
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Tusla, The Child and Family Agency, cannot compel parents to bring children to medical, psychological or intervention therapies.

Where, under the Child Care Act 1991, a court makes a supervision order in respect of a child, it may give such directions as it sees fit as to the care of the child, which may require the parents of the child or a person acting in loco parentis to cause him to attend for medical or psychiatric examination, treatment or assessment at a hospital, clinic or other place specified by the court.

Where a Care Order is in place, Tusla can give consent to any necessary medical or psychiatric examination, treatment or assessment with respect to the child.