Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 13 June 2019
Public Accounts Committee
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs
9:00 am
Mr. Pat Smyth:
As the facilities are set up, as far as possible, to be places that resemble normal family arrangements, they are staffed 24/7 by childcare workers, social workers and domestic staff. It depends on the number of children in a house. If there are four children, which is probably the more normal arrangement, it can be the case that there is only one child who is in crisis. In such a case, there would obviously be fewer but perhaps more skilled staff.
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