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:

It is not a simple binary piece, the idea being that with a combination of more resources going into at-risk children at a much earlier stage in their lives they do not end up with those complex needs. More than 50% of the children in those placements are aged 15, 16 and upwards. They are high needs, late teenage children so-----

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