Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 23 October 2025
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation Accounts 2024
Vote 21 - Prisons
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth - Programme E Expenditure
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 9 - Assessing Cyber Security in the Public Sector
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2024
Chapter 9 - Criminal Justice Operational Hubs
Chapter 10 - Management of International Protection Accommodation Contracts
2:00 am
Ms Oonagh McPhillips:
I would say it is and I will definitely check it. I will provide some reassurance about the issue the Deputy is raising. Tusla's working assumption - it is the right thing to do - is to assume if it is a borderline case that the person is a child. People are put into a child setting so that they are not put into an adult setting. It is the reverse that is the issue, that an adult might be accommodated in a child setting and I will check that number for the Deputy.
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