Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 29 June 2016

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs

Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised)

9:00 am

Photo of Jan O'SullivanJan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour) | Oireachtas source

It is a reduction from 2015 but the reduction is in the capital spend so I presume that is what is required to complete the work but I would appreciate if the Minister could clarify it.

The third question relates to young people transitioning from care. There is some information but all of us would agree that young people transitioning from care are particularly vulnerable and need a variety of supports. I am not sure whether they all get the support that is intended. There is a reference to maintaining and improve the percentage of all children and young people in care, engaging with the education service and maintaining and improving the percentage of aftercare assessments offered to young people transitioning from care. We would have assumed that all children should be offered an assessment when they are transitioning from care because they are vulnerable in so many ways.

We would have assumed that all children should be offered an assessment when they are transitioning from care because they are vulnerable in so many ways including to homelessness, not having the kind of support young people who grow up in a family will have when they are leaving home. The Minister might give us information on progress in that area. It is monitored but in that monitoring has the need to put more resources into that area been identified?

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