Mr. Pat Bergin:

The ACTS service was a national service. A team of professionals was established by Tusla and based in Cork, Dublin and Limerick. They worked as a team to follow the young people through the care services, whether it was young people in the community, in special care high-support units or in detention. The idea was that they would be familiar with those young people and be able to pass on the intervention each clinician had to a relevant clinician in the relevant area. When young people were leaving us, the ACTS team could move with the child or young person. There has been a review of the ACTS service and rather than to have one national team that moves with the children, five teams have been established, including in Cork and Limerick. The five teams cover the north, south, east and west and there is one in Oberstown. The idea is that they will continue to work together. The team in Oberstown will work with young people. If a young person goes to Cork, the team in Cork will pick up the support services and work with the young person in the Cork area. What was happening was that staff were travelling all over the country and were not in a position to provide a robust service. They spent more time on the road than in delivering services.