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:

I have been engaged in the Workplace Relations Commission process with the staff on an ongoing basis. I met the unions yesterday. Issues have never been raised about my management style. I would like to hear what the issues are and about the challenges people are experiencing. There will be a difference around my style in contrast to the direction and the decision on the direction in which the campus is going. This echoes something Professor Kilkelly referenced. There are different directions to be taken and different decisions to be made. The question is whether people are unhappy with the decisions that I am making or with the style. No one has ever raised anything with me about the style. When that is raised, I would like to see the context and where we go from there.