Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 5 October 2016

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs

Operations of Oberstown Children Detention Centre

9:00 am

Mr. Pat Bergin:

With regard to the two points raised about the HIQA report. One was about management and staffing. It looked at the role of middle managers from the perspective of the supervision that needs to be provided to the staff. They have been trained in supervision and there is a process being rolled out to ensure unit managers provide appropriate supervision to their care staff.