Tusla and HSE at odds over foster care abuse case

Tusla and the HSE will give contradictory accounts of how a teenager with an intellectual disability came to be left with a foster carer, accused of sex abuse, for up to 21 months after children in the foster home were removed for their safety.

The agencies are to be called in for questioning by Disability Minister Finian McGrath amid growing concern over the level of communications and co-operation between them.

Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, insisted yesterday that it could not intervene to remove the teenager when it made the decision in May 2014 to remove the two younger children.