Ms Emily Logan:

I will start with Deputy McLellan's first question on staff and resources. The Finglas Child and Adolescent Centre was closed. I understand that 20 members of its staff went to Oberstown. While it is not my place to tell the Executive how to spend its resources, we need to challenge knee-jerk discussions on resources, which are often the first response, and ask whether there is actually an issue in that regard. Current capacity at Oberstown is 52 and there are more than 220 staff. There is no doubt that the children at Oberstown have challenging behaviours and one would expect there to be more staff than in other care environments, but the question of whether levels of competence and capacity need to be upskilled as opposed to additional staff provided should be put to the board of Oberstown. I understand that-----