Ms Kate Duggan:

Some of them can be for a period of time. We can get a call from the gardaí during the night - a section 12, where we have to take a child into care and there may not be a registered emergency placement available and we would have to place the young people. Sometimes it is because of the complex presentation of the young person. For other people or young people in residential care or foster care, that is their home, and for us to introduce somebody new into that, an assessment must be done.