Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 23 September 2020
155. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children, Disability, Equality and Integration the estimated average cost of keeping one young person in remand in a youth justice remand facility for one year. [25726/20]
Amharc ar fhreagraAll young persons under the age of 18 sentenced to a period of remand or detention by the Courts are detained in Oberstown Children Detention Campus. The operational costs for the day to day running of Oberstown Children Detention Campus (excluding pension and capital costs) in 2019 was €19.77 million.
The Certificate 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 (4 girls and 48 boys). In 2019, 127 individual young people were remanded or sentenced to detention in Oberstown. There were 38 young people on campus on 22 September 2020. As occupancy rates vary on a daily basis, it is not possible to estimate the cost of detaining one young person for one year.
