Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 28 February 2013
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children
Child and Family Support Agency: Discussion
11:20 am
Jillian van Turnhout (Independent) | Oireachtas source
I spoke recently to an aftercare worker who told me that to get one night of emergency accommodation, one had to go through five levels of management. I was trying to calculate the time, which is probably expeditionary in respect of what that one night of emergency accommodation costs. Will that reform in the new agency empower workers and make them accountable? It needs to be a double-edged sword. Those are my main questions. My difficulty is that I still cannot fully see the picture of the new agency. I can see all the principles and values and I totally agree with them. However, if one asked each of us to write down what the new agency is like, we would come up with a different answer. I want and believe in this agency but I am still grasping what it actually looks like.
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