Missing 8yr Old Kyran Durnin - presumed dead *READ Mod Note Added to OP*

The mother told the school that the child was moving to a school in the north. At that point there were no concerns. Why would the school have done anything to follow up?

Even if Tusla rang the school, the school would say that child was taken out of school.

If Tusla had to chase down every child who moved house, how would that work?

Like, there seems to be an impression here that Tusla is some sort of crime-fighting agency. They're simply not set up to deal with complex and pre-meditated crimes such as those that have been alleged in this case, nor should they be. Your local principal certainly isn't either.

I'll say it again, there is only one culprit here, no matter how people want to spin and deflect it. All these grudges against Tusla or the state are a complete sideshow.

I can’t tell if you genuinely do not understand what I’m saying so I’ll try to explain better.

You asked what Tusla should have done. At the meeting they should have asked the mother- why has kyran missed school for the past 2 years (or however long). If the mother said he was in x school in NI, then following the meeting they should have contacted that school.

If the mother said he was sick with covid in hospital, they should have followed up with the hospital.

If the mother says he hasn’t been in school for a year, then a plan should have been made for the mother to re-enrol the child in a school and that school followed up with by Tusla to check if the child was re-enrolled and if the child did in fact attend.

This is the very minimum of what I would expect from tusla. This doesn’t require any great skill or detective work. I’m surprised to think that they just meet with the family and that’s it, case closed, all good.

I meant- why has he not been in school, or if he has been in school, what school?

How do you know that is what the parent told tusla? Apparently that is what the parent told the school in 2022, but we have no idea what they told tusla.

I don’t know the ins and outs but someone else posted above that there is actually cross border links for situations like this?

Another poster says Tusla can't possibly know whether a child presented is the actual child because reasons.

In that case, what on earth are taxpayers paying Tusla to do anyway? If all they can do is vaguely look at a child and say,; Yep, seems legit, with no way of checking on whether it's even the same child, nor whether the child is at the school the family say he's at, then how can they be overworked?

You can't both be right, surely?

In fact, why not just shut Tusla down, since all they're able to do, according to that poster, is tick boxes anyway, and you think they're overwhelmed doing even that? Think of all the money the taxpayer would save, and since they can't be expected to check up on children anyway, what difference would it make?

Apparently they can't even be expected to know which children they're meant to be safeguarding. So at what point does it become reasonable to ask what actual use they can possibly be in those conditions?

It does beg the question of what do they (tusla) actually do though? Like if a family is reported for abuse/neglect etc, what happens then? In this case it just seems to have been a meeting and nothing else, is that the norm?

This does happen here. The teacher IS invited to case conferences by Tusla and a photo of the child IS circulated.

A minor having a child is an automatic Mandated Report to Tusla. Would automatically be reported by the health professionals involved in the pregnancy/birth.

They're definitely not underfunded, just lazy.

The ''bike shed'' is a prime example of public service value for money