Written answers
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
Department of Health and Children
Children in Care
11:00 pm
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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Question 200: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the details of all inspections of institutions that cater for children that have been carried out by the Health Information and Qualify Authority since its inception; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25876/09]
Barry Andrews (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The policy of the Health Inspection and Quality Authority (HIQA) is to publish all inspection reports. Since the Authority's establishment in 2007 a total of 133 inspections of services that cater for children have taken place.
The breakdown of inspections across each year since the Authority's establishment is as follows:
| Type of Service | 2009 (YTD) | 2008 | 2007 (May-December) |
| Children's Residential Centres | 35 | 56 | 9 |
| Detention Schools | 2 | 2 | — |
| High Support Units | 4 | 11 | — |
| Special Care Units | 3 | 6 | 3 |
| Foster Service* | — | 1 | 1 |
| *This relates to inspections of HSE Fostering Services as opposed to individual foster homes. HSE Fostering Services were inspected in the Meath Local Health Area in 2007 and in the Dublin South West Local Health Area in 2008. |
Full details of all inspections undertaken since the establishment of the Authority are available on-line from www.hiqa.ie
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