Children in long-term residential care

Summary

The Minister estimated that approximately 650 legitimate children had been in residential care for more than five years.

Alan Shatter Mr. Shatter Fine Gael

asked the Minister for Health the number of legitimate children at present in care who have been in residential care for five years or more.

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Barry Desmond Mr. B. Desmond Labour Party

The statistical information relating to children in the care of health boards available in my Department enables me only to state approximately the number of "legitimate" children in residential care for more than five years. The approximate figure is 650.

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