Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

This is where the fostering organisations have a very good case. By definition most children who are fostered out have come from difficult backgrounds. There are issues in the background and in a high percentage there are issues with the young people themselves. There is an amount of care and attention required for that child between the ages of 13 to 17, and amount of care and attention required by Tusla for that child is way beyond what one would do for a child who had a much more stable background. There is a case that caring credits would be given for people who foster children, at least up to the child reaching the age of 18.