Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 21 June 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs

Foster Care Services: Discussion (Resumed)

9:00 am

Mr. Jim Gibson:

It is really important to add that we as an agency do not just send those children to out-of-State placements. There is an absolute process involved. We have psychiatric assessments, we are before the High Court and there is a whole process to be gone through. It is not just Tusla making the decision to send a child out of State for a very specific treatment-----