Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 9 December 2020
168. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the authority by which Tusla can compel attendance at medical, psychological or intervention therapies. [42464/20]
View answerTusla, The Child and Family Agency, cannot compel parents to bring children to medical, psychological or intervention therapies.
Where, under the Child Care Act 1991, a court makes a supervision order in respect of a child, it may give such directions as it sees fit as to the care of the child, which may require the parents of the child or a person acting in loco parentis to cause him to attend for medical or psychiatric examination, treatment or assessment at a hospital, clinic or other place specified by the court.
Where a Care Order is in place, Tusla can give consent to any necessary medical or psychiatric examination, treatment or assessment with respect to the child.
