Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 19 February 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs
General Scheme of the Miscellaneous Provisions (Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union on 29 March 2019) Bill 2019: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs
Mr. Cormac Quinlan:
There are nine children currently placed in the United Kingdom in a foster care arrangement but we would still hold responsibility for those placements. We still govern those placements in terms of our statutory responsibility. These happen sometimes where foster parents might relocate to the United Kingdom, so the children are still under our care and we still meet our regulatory requirements in respect of them and we continue to pay for those placements in that context.
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