Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 27 July 2021
1189. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated average cost of keeping one young person in remand in a youth justice remand facility for one year. [41256/21]
View answerAll young people under the age of 18 detained on remand or sentenced to a period of detention by the Courts are detained in Oberstown Children Detention Campus. The operational costs for the ongoing running of Oberstown (excluding pension and capital costs) in 2020 was €21.18 million.
The Certificate applicable in 2020 and issued by the Minister under Sections 195 and 196 of the Children Act 2001, requires Oberstown to provide a total of 54 remand and detention places (6 girls and 48 boys). In 2020, 122 individual young people were remanded or sentenced to detention in Oberstown.
As occupancy rates vary on a daily basis, it is not possible to accurately estimate the cost of detaining one young person on remand for one year.
