Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 15 February 2024
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons
9:30 am
Ms Caron McCaffrey:
The Deputy might be interested to hear that in regard to education, the average school-leaving age of everybody in custody is 14, so if a child has disengaged from the education sector one can see why he or she might become involved in criminality. Quite a lot of work is being done for those children within the youth justice area and bilaterally with the Department of Education.
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