Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 10 May 2022
Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth
Foster Care Issues and the Loss of Positive Care Services: Engagement with Tusla
Ms Kate Duggan:
It would be determined by the care path. There are many children in foster care today who do not need access to respite. It is part of the care plan. Do we have adequate respite? No, and it is something we must look at. It is back to the point around shared care placement and increasing not just the number of respite places we have available but our model of respite. That is all being addressed in the plan we are developing.