Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Independent)
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Question 675: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children in private foster care in Ireland year on year for the past ten years; the annual cost of providing this care; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36243/12]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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The HSE has advised me that 249 children were placed in private foster care at a cost of €6,727,698 in 2009, 304 children were placed in private foster care at a cost of €9,581,360 in 2010 and 360 children were placed in private foster care at a cost of €12,893,243 in 2011. The information requested for the period 2002 to 2008 is not available at this time.