Written answers

Wednesday, 17 September 2025

Department of Justice and Equality

Child and Family Agency

Photo of Louise O'ReillyLouise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal West, Sinn Fein)
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848. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of children who were referred by An Garda Síochána to Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, in each year between 2014 and 2024, in tabular form. [47938/25]

Photo of Matt CarthyMatt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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862. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of children who were referred by An Garda Síochána to Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, in each year between 2014 and 2024, in tabular form. [48066/25]

Photo of Jim O'CallaghanJim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 848 and 862 together.

I am advised by An Garda Síochána that the following table provides a count of unique incidents where a child was referred by An Garda Síochána to Tusla, the Family & Child Agency for the 2014 to 2024 period.

Year Reported Incident Type Number of Incidents
2014 Formal Notification to Tusla 13,101
2015 Formal Notification to Tusla 15,500
2016 Formal Notification to Tusla 17,091
2017 Formal Notification to Tusla 21,897
2018 Formal Notification to Tusla 23,513
2019 Formal Notification to Tusla 26,655
2020 Formal Notification to Tusla 30,694
2021 Formal Notification to Tusla 32, 854
2022 Formal Notification to Tusla 30,010
2023 Formal Notification to Tusla 32,836
2024 Formal Notification to Tusla 32,519
I am advised by the Garda authorities that where multiple children are associated with an originating PULSE incident, a separate notification incident is generated for each child.

I am also advised that a child may be associated with more than one notification incident during the course of a single reporting year and/or across multiple reporting years.

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