Thomas Gould (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein)
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143. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the funding that was made available for family support services in Budget 2021 was distributed through a tendering process; and the reason the decision was made to engage in competitive tendering for these services. [33127/22]

Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
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Tusla is responsibly under the Child and Family Act 2013 for funding and providing a wide range of services to support and promote the development, welfare and protection of children, and the effective functioning of families.

Tusla commissions a range of services including family support services. The commissioning process, as set out in Tusla's Commissioning Strategy, seeks to ensure that the total resources available to children and families are applied to improving outcomes in the most efficient, effective, equitable, proportionate and sustainable way.

Additional funding was provided to Tusla in 2022 to support the community and voluntary sector which delivers important services on its behalf.