Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 23 May 2023

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth

Oberstown Children’s Detention Campus: Chairperson-Designate

Ms Koulla Yiasouma:

It also sets Oberstown up to fail. If the work cannot continue in the community or begin before young people come in, Oberstown is being asked to do too big a job. It is far too big a job. You cannot fix - if I can use that word - young people who have been failed by a great many systems and who may continue to be failed once they leave. You cannot ask Oberstown to fix that. It cannot do so on its own. It needs to be part of a system but it has information that can inform that system.

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