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Kitty Holland

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
42 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Claire Byrne Show
Almost 300 asylum seekers claiming to be children were adults

No, I don't.

The Claire Byrne Show
Almost 300 asylum seekers claiming to be children were adults

Not with 14 year olds.

The Claire Byrne Show
Almost 300 asylum seekers claiming to be children were adults

I mean, if you had a very young.

The Claire Byrne Show
Almost 300 asylum seekers claiming to be children were adults

very young looking 24 year olds they possibly could end up for you know a few weeks in a accommodation with sort of 17 year olds but I think it would be I think 24 would probably be quite oh you know older than usual you know I think it really is the borderline cases between as as your colleague there was saying between the 17 years and 11 months and 18 years and one month and

The Claire Byrne Show
Almost 300 asylum seekers claiming to be children were adults

And I suppose, you know, the issue that would strike me is that if there are age disputed young people, that they should be in really in residential centres where there's fully qualified staff and that there's a good staff ratio because, you know, young people carry a lot of trauma and their brains aren't fully developed, you know, until they're quite a bit older and, you know, regulating their emotions and their trauma and that kind of thing.

The Claire Byrne Show
Almost 300 asylum seekers claiming to be children were adults

And I suppose, you know,

The Claire Byrne Show
Almost 300 asylum seekers claiming to be children were adults

The issue is if they're in a residential centre where there aren't sufficient staff and who are properly trauma informed, trained and all that kind of thing to manage them and to look after them properly, that's where things can go wrong.

The Claire Byrne Show
Almost 300 asylum seekers claiming to be children were adults

And that would be, you know, the horrifying situations that

The Claire Byrne Show
Almost 300 asylum seekers claiming to be children were adults

that can arise and we know do arise.

The Claire Byrne Show
Almost 300 asylum seekers claiming to be children were adults

Yeah.

The Claire Byrne Show
Almost 300 asylum seekers claiming to be children were adults

Yeah.

The Claire Byrne Show
Almost 300 asylum seekers claiming to be children were adults

I mean, they do still exist.

The Claire Byrne Show
Almost 300 asylum seekers claiming to be children were adults

I mean, Tulsa, in fairness, is reducing their reliance on them and they, you know, they

The Claire Byrne Show
Almost 300 asylum seekers claiming to be children were adults

I think there's about 70 young people in special emergency arrangements.

The Claire Byrne Show
Almost 300 asylum seekers claiming to be children were adults

The majority of them actually are coming from Irish households, not unaccompanied minors.

The Claire Byrne Show
Almost 300 asylum seekers claiming to be children were adults

And again, it goes back to funding.

The Claire Byrne Show
Almost 300 asylum seekers claiming to be children were adults

Tulsa is chronically underfunded.

The Claire Byrne Show
Almost 300 asylum seekers claiming to be children were adults

They get half of what they ask for every year.

The Claire Byrne Show
Almost 300 asylum seekers claiming to be children were adults

They ask for the Department of Children

The Claire Byrne Show
Almost 300 asylum seekers claiming to be children were adults

doesn't get the sanction from the department of public expenditure to give the funding, you know, provide the funding that Tesla needs.