Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 16 July 2026
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Equality
Child Protection Matters, Special Care and Special Emergency Care Arrangements: Tusla
2:00 am
Ms Kate Duggan:
There is no hotel accommodation. Under our national out-of-hours service, there may be. I want to check my records here to give the Deputy the data as of this week. Where we have our national out-of-hours service, an example may be a Sunday night. I have to be very honest that where there is a breakdown in a placement and there may be a period of 12 or 24 hours when a placement is not available, a hotel may have to be sought. For one young person on that week in July for which I have this figure, there had to be hotel arrangement sought-----
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