Ms Kate Duggan:

I can confirm that last week, for example, just over half of those young people were aged between 16 and 17. The next largest group, which was 20-something percent, was between 14 and 16. It is really important to say that we had try to place most of those young people in foster or residential care and that due to the complex presentations, they had to be moved. We cannot leave them in a Garda stations. We cannot leave them in a hospital. There is no home. We have to give them a place of safety.