Written answers
Thursday, 15 November 2012
Department of Children and Youth Affairs
Children in Care
Joe McHugh (Donegal North East, Fine Gael)
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To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children in foster care on a county basis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50704/12]
Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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I have been advised by the HSE that there were a total of 5,739 children in Foster Care at end of August 2012. Of these 3,936 were in general foster care and 1,803 were in relative foster care. The following is a breakdown of this information by HSE area:
HSE Dublin Mid Leinster | Foster Care total care placements |
|---|---|
| Dún Laoghaire | 103 |
| Dublin South East | 79 |
| Wicklow | 111 |
| Dublin South City | 147 |
| Dublin South West | 206 |
| Dublin West | 188 |
| Kildare/Wicklow | 180 |
| Laois/Offaly | 203 |
| Longford/Westmeath | 118 |
| Total | 1335 |
HSE Dublin North East | Foster Care total care placements |
| Louth | 192 |
| Cavan/ Monaghan | 168 |
| Meath | 130 |
| Dublin North West | 378 |
| Dublin Nth Central | 314 |
| Dublin North | 149 |
| Total | 1331 |
| HSE South | Foster Care total care placements |
| North Lee | 473 |
| South Lee | 212 |
| North Cork | 111 |
| West Cork | 58 |
| Kerry | 140 |
| South Tipperary | 154 |
| Carlow/Kilkenny | 182 |
| Waterford | 255 |
| Wexford | 198 |
| Total | 1783 |
| HSE West | Foster Care total care placements |
| Limerick | 274 |
| Clare | 155 |
| Tipperary North | 124 |
| Galway | 261 |
| Mayo | 126 |
| Roscommon | 134 |
| Donegal | 156 |
| Sligo/Leitrim | 60 |
| Total | 1290 |
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