There are calls for Minister Roderick O’Gorman to resign or at least make a statement after a series of scandals involving state provided care for vulnerable children.
The Irish Times revealed that Tusla stopped placing children with one large provider of accommodation for children in care, Ideal Care Services, after it was found to have put young people at risk by failing to carry out proper background checks on staff.
Ideal Care is owned by an African evangelical pastor, Jossy Akwuobi (45), from Tyrrelstown, Dublin. The Irish Times reported that inspections of the company that March had found checks of prospective employees had been “fabricated”, while some Garda vetting records had been altered. In response to revelations, the Dáil heard the company had been referred to the Garda.
Tusla also cut ties with another company providing emergency accommodation for children in state care over “concerns”. The name of the company and what exactly these concerns are were not revealed. It was also revealed that 22 children went missing from state care in January this year alone.
Minster O’Gorman has also been accused of keeping the public in the dark ahead of the referenda on altering the constitutional definition of the family and removing the special references to women and mothers from the constitution, after his department refused to release interdepartmental minutes from the lead up to the decision to hold these polls.
O’Gorman is regularly outspoken and active in his work to attract and accommodate refugees and asylum seekers and in his promotion of LGBTQIA issues and ideology but apparently does not have time in his schedule to even make a statement on vulnerable children missing from his care.
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