Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 9 October 2025
Committee on Drugs Use
Kinship Care and Care: Discussion
2:00 am
Ms Fiona Murray:
Principally, that young person may have been placed on a special care order through the High Court. They are entering into special care on a placement. During their period in the placement, it is identified, or it has been pre-identified already, that they struggle with an addiction issue. Therefore, it is being managed within the special care placement through a medical model. It is not so much that addiction is the purpose of the placement. Rather, it is a combination of welfare matters that pertain to that child for which a special care order has been sought through the High Court. While placed within special care, that addiction issue is addressed through the support of a medical team.
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