615. Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality given the repeated failures within TUSLA highlighted in the media and raised in the Dáil Éireann including cases where babies were removed from breastfeeding mothers, the reason children are not immediately returned to their parents when a placement breaks down, particularly where the parent has been assessed as safe and is already caring for other children; the criteria TUSLA relies on to keep children in care in these circumstances; the accountability which exists when reunification is delayed without lawful or child-centred reasons; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [73593/25]

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615. Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality given the repeated failures within TUSLA highlighted in the media and raised in the Dáil Éireann including cases where babies were removed from breastfeeding mothers, the reason children are not immediately returned to their parents when a placement breaks down, particularly where the parent has been assessed as safe and is already caring for other children; the criteria TUSLA relies on to keep children in care in these circumstances; the accountability which exists when reunification is delayed without lawful or child-centred reasons; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [73593/25]

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