Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 23 May 2023
Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth
Oberstown Children’s Detention Campus: Chairperson-Designate
Ms Koulla Yiasouma:
It also sets Oberstown up to fail. If the work cannot continue in the community or begin before young people come in, Oberstown is being asked to do too big a job. It is far too big a job. You cannot fix - if I can use that word - young people who have been failed by a great many systems and who may continue to be failed once they leave. You cannot ask Oberstown to fix that. It cannot do so on its own. It needs to be part of a system but it has information that can inform that system.