Any cuts to Tusla will affect victims of sex assault and rape

Domestic violence and rape crisis sector will be the target of further cuts, according to the Child and Family Agency’s chief executive, writes Cliona Saidlear

A leaked Tusla (the Child and Family Agency) briefing to a Cabinet subcommittee regarding the agency being “in default of statutory obligations” due to a lack of resources, prompted its chief executive, Gordon Jeyes, to make a number of public statements on RTÉ.

Those statements highlighted a serious question about how an agency whose overriding priority is child protection can champion and support adult survivors and services for predominantly women suffering violence.