Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 17 May 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs

Findings of HIQA Statutory Foster Care Service Inspection Reports: Discussion

9:00 am

Ms Mary Dunnion:

I must apologise to Deputy Rabbitte as we do not have the specific information to answer her question. However, we will revert to her with further information. A notification is not a validated piece of information. We get over 40,000 notifications per year in regulated services. We then carry out an investigation of those notifications, which are mandatory and have to be reported. They are not necessarily associated with a risk. I will look further into the specifics of the 72 cases and we will revert to the Deputy in that regard.