Ms Emily Logan:

We need to be careful that we are not only finding pragmatic solutions. For instance, what are we doing right in Ireland that we do not have girls committing crimes? We have one young person in Oberstown. This is something about which we should be talking internationally. One can be pragmatic but that requires pragmatism on all sides, including from the staff, the children and everybody involved. There can be pragmatic solutions but we need to be careful that we are not taking the short-term solution, or a band aid solution, to things. This will be a long-term project. We do not want to be here talking about this in the future, like we did about St. Patrick's 28 years ago. We can anticipate what is before us.