Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 5 October 2016

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs

Operations of Oberstown Children Detention Centre

9:00 am

Photo of Josepha MadiganJosepha Madigan (Dublin Rathdown, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I apologise for missing the presentation. I am a member of the Committee on the Future of Healthcare which is meeting at the same time. It is impossible to bi-locate and I am afraid I will have to be in and out. I read the submissions. Reference was made to the medical assessment of residents when they come to the centre. I presume that includes mental health assessment. Are there any new developments in that regard? Obviously, that is the key where there are addictions, violent behaviour and all of that. Leading into that, a particular interest of mine is restorative justice. I realise that is not solely within the centre's remit to promote something like that, but I have huge belief in a restorative justice approach. Is it something the centre has sought or which is happening already? It would be very helpful.

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