Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent)
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611. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 963 of 27 September 2016, if Tusla will refer children for assessment to centres that are not registered as residential centres with Tusla. [28578/16]

Katherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent)
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I wish to reassure the Deputy that Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, has not made any agreement with the company referred to in her previous question, to utilise the assessment service described. I must also stress that Tusla does not place children who have been received into care in residential centres that are not registered.

The requirements for placing a child in a children's residential centre, and for the running of these centres are laid out in the Child Care (Placement of Children in Residential Care) Regulations 1995. All residential centres are inspected against national standards, with statutory centres inspected by the Health Information and Quality Authority and private or voluntary centres inspected and registered by Tusla.