Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 28 November 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs

HIQA Inpsection Report on Oberstown Detention Centre: Discussion

1:30 pm

Photo of Anne RabbitteAnne Rabbitte (Galway East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

At the end of the day, there has to be accountability. The accountability has to go back to the line manager who signed off for putting a child into single separation for nine days. I would like to think as the monitoring body going out that the witnesses would be getting all the answers as to why, when and how it came about. What resources and measures were put in place to prevent it happening even into half of that day, the rest of that day, not to mind going all the way to day eight before we managed to get fresh air? Where are the witnesses going to go from here? Do they plan to have an unannounced visit in the next three months? Where does a red line go off here that this could be a continual practice? Ms Boyle is saying that there was a good atmosphere so I am taking it that things are moving on. To reassure the general public that this practice is becoming a forgotten practice in Oberstown unannounced visits need to start happening, do they not?

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