Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 21 May 2024

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth

Review of Barnahus Model for Young People who have Experienced Child Sexual Abuse: Discussion

Photo of Patrick CostelloPatrick Costello (Dublin South Central, Green Party)
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This will help to create these relationships organically and get past any issues. What is, therefore, going to happen to other people outside these areas? Where will these joint specialist interviews happen? Will they all be in the Barnahus context or is there an expectation it will still happen in the community services? What are the roadblocks to this joined-up thinking? My idea regarding the solution in this context is known to the witnesses.

While I do not necessarily have any concerns about the outsourcing of CARI, the role it plays and the excellent work it does, the whole point of Barnahus is that everybody is at the same table. Are representatives of CARI sitting at the table as well? This goes back to colocation.