Seanad debates
Thursday, 8 May 2003
National Standards for Foster Care: Statements.
I gather that short-term fostering of very young children is not that great a problem but that there is still considerable work to be done in the area of getting places for older children. It is wrong for the State to put children into hospitals when they come into its care, be it on a short-term or long-term basis. For example, the Romanian child, who it was thought was brought into this country for an arranged marriage at about 12 years of age, was put in Crumlin hospital. She left it one morning and I do not know where she is now. It was not a suitable place to put a child.
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