Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 2 October 2025
Public Accounts Committee
Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency
2:00 am
Ms Kate Duggan:
It is probably sometimes the opposite of that. In a residential environment it is very restricted and regimented. They are subject to HIQA and they are inspected. There are one or two young people, particularly over the age of 16, who are 17, who actually like being in single occupancy and cope better. It is one child or young person on their own with staff. We have young people in special emergency arrangements who we would like to have in a regulated and registered centre. The cost of those arrangements, as we said, average at around €750,000 per year because they are normally single-occupancy placements where they are staffed 24-hours a day by -----
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