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

This is one of the questions that I ask regularly because there are so many different views on it and care-leavers have such different experiences. It is so hard to achieve a uniformity so that all needs are met. Does the Department engage with people and garner their views of aftercare service? Does Tusla and the Department have a formal advisory council for young people with experience of the foster care system and, if not, would the Minister consider establishing such a forum? Have we a way of gathering this information? We must listen to the voices of young people, and I do not believe that they are being listened to. I worry that some of the 770 people of whom the Minister spoke will end up in homelessness.

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