Fiona O'Loughlin (Kildare South, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Programme for a Partnership Government stresses the need to intervene early and set a path for vulnerable children, including foster children. This is certainly not working at this point in time. I will give one example. A foster mother in my constituency that I have been dealing with in the last few months took into her care a nine-year old boy whose parents are drug addicts and whose dad is in jail. She has provided a very loving and caring home for a child with very particular needs.

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