Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 November 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs

HIQA Inspection of the Oberstown Children's Detention Campus: Discussion

9:30 am

Mr. Pat Bergin:

I will just return to the first point the Deputy made about having a comprehensive plan in respect of the findings of the HIQA report. That plan exists and has been published. It is available to everybody. On the inspection, while the inspection was in March, the report was issued to us in June and we reverted to HIQA with an action plan in July.

It accepted the action plan and all the works we intended to undertake. It published the report in August. In the past four weeks, it sought a follow-up to the action plan and we have provided that. It wrote back to us on 7 November to seek clarification on one or two documents we had referenced. That information will be provided to HIQA in the next week or two. I expect that HIQA will come on site to inspect and monitor. That is part of the inspection element of the matter. The action plan will identify what has been completed and what the timelines are. I suppose this is specific to the points the Deputy is making. In each case, the action plan will map out what action is being undertaken and when it will be completed, if it has not already been completed. I will bring that to the Deputy's attention.