James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I anticipate that the response to the last issue will come fairly soon. I would like to apologise; this is the area of the Minister of State, Deputy Lynch, who is unavailable to us today due to a family bereavement. I am here in her stead. I remember that when I was on the benches across and we were discussing child care, it was about the terrible tragedy of so many deaths in care in the past. I am glad to see that that situation has greatly improved even though we still need to work on it.

We also continue to work on the admission of children to adult facilities, because nobody in this House thinks that is appropriate. New services are being put in place. In 2008, 25% of admissions of children to the HSE inpatient acute services were to age appropriate child and adolescent units. By 2013, this had increased to 68%, so clearly we have more road to go.

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