Anne Rabbitte (Galway East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Minister mentioned HIQA and stated that there had been improvements. However, a HIQA report from earlier this year outlined concerns about the inappropriate use of handcuffs at Oberstown, as well as concerns about the facility's approach to child protection complaints. The Minister may say I am taking this out of context but I repeat that I do not have the base line to see where the improvements have come and where the recommendations are being implemented. This is because I am working in the dark and do not have the reports. I take it that there is a combination of things and I acknowledge that the chair and the manager came before the Joint Committee on Children and Youth Affairs but we have asked for this report numerous times. We want to be fair to the board and to the staff. We want to acknowledge that the recommendations are being implemented but we do not have the base line to see that.

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