Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 16 January 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs

Annual Report of Ombudsman for Children 2016: Discussion

1:30 pm

Dr. Niall Muldoon:

The key unique factor is we have managed to get the HSE and Tusla to agree to look at these 470 young people. Even up to two months ago, the HSE did not know the names of those individuals. They had not linked the idea they were in care. They knew them as disabled children but they did not know whether they were in care. Over the next 12 months they will look to see if we can predict these needs. With somebody like Molly, we can predict what she will need over the next ten or 12 years and there is very little change in that regard. We should be able to get a better set of action plans and follow-through resources in that regard.

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