Tusla warns of children coughing and spitting at staff

Tusla warned of significant cost implications and staff shortages amid the Covid-19 pandemic. File picture. 

It was costing Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, €45,593 per week to have six children accommodated in specialist care facilities abroad last year.

That is according to extensive briefing documents prepared by officials for the new Minister for Children, Disability, Equality, and Integration, Roderic O’Gorman.