Gardaí: Tusla can take five months to contact parties

Gardaí have said it is not unusual for Tusla to take five months from the date of a referral in a child welfare case before making contact with the parties involved, with one senior officer citing the workload of social workers as the main reason.

The comments were made in the course of a hearing in which a man faced a charge of assault against his former partner and where the alleged altercation was said to have occurred in front of the couple’s children.