Man seeks to quash Tusla's provisional finding he sexually abused his young niece

A flawed outcome was “inevitable”, he says, due to the want of impartiality in the investigation.

The man alleges the inquiry and outcome are in “flagrant breach” of Tusla’s policy directive and “irredeemably tainted” by a serious and significant error or series of errors.

A man is asking the High Court to quash a provisional finding by Tusla that allegations of historic child sexual abuse made against him by his niece are “founded”.

The court should also make an order restraining Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, from conducting a further inquiry into the alleged events dating back to the period of 1989 to 1994, when the woman was under the age of 10, he says. He says the allegations against him are untrue.