Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 17 July 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children

Young People in Detention: Discussion with the Ombudsman for Children.

4:40 pm

Ms Emily Logan:

It is important the Oireachtas Members as legislators are seen to show an interest in this because as Dr. Muldoon states, it is the final piece of the jigsaw. We have been going very well and let us not lose the momentum. The Minister has had the gumption to close St. Patrick's Institution. It is a small cohort of offenders so the issue is not insurmountable. I think it is possible to do it.