Joan Collins (Dublin South Central, Independents 4 Change)
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224. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the percentage and number of young persons aged up to and including 18 years of age that have an active case with the Probation Service that are also subject to a care order through Tusla. [28884/21]

Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
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As the Deputy will be aware from a previous parliamentary question on this topic, Tusla does not collate national information about the number of children with an active case with the probation service who are also subject to a care order. This information will be known at a local area level by the child’s social worker and the Principal Social Worker. Tusla staff and Probation Staff work closely to ensure they are supporting the child in an optimal way.

Tusla has been severely impacted by the cyber-attack on the HSE twelve days ago and as such is significantly limited in its ability to respond to your question.

The Children First Act 2015 places a legal obligation on certain people, many of whom are professionals, to report child protection concerns at or above a defined threshold to Tusla.

These mandated persons must also assist Tusla, on request, in its assessment of child protection concerns about children who have been the subject of a mandated report.

In 2020 Tusla received 31 mandated reports from probation officers (within the meaning of section 1 of the Criminal Justice (Community Service) Act 1983) and five mandated reports from probation officers were received during January and February this year.