Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North-West, Fianna Fail)

It is an extraordinary amount of money. I take the point about foster caring not being driven by financial incentives - I fully accept that, knowing foster parents - but surely there is some model between what a foster parent gets and three quarters of a million euro in an environment that is not incredibly dissimilar to a home though it is not a residential care placement, particularly when it is teenagers. From a value-for-money perspective that is an extraordinary difference between the cost of foster care parents and the cost of special arrangements.