180 Deputy Billy Timmins asked the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2009 whereby, at present, the Health Service Executive may continue to provide after-care to young persons coming out of care when they reach 18 years, but many of our most vulnerable young persons are effectively abandoned when they reach 18, a time at which they are particularly vulnerable to homelessness and the concomitant risk of drug addiction and crime; if the Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2009 will include a provision which would oblige the HSE to provide after-care support to every young person who needs it; her views on a submission by an organisation (details supplied) that guaranteeing after-care is not just the right thing to do, but is also cost-effective, and the fact that the availability of after-care to young people leaving State care is one of the key recommendations of the Ryan report on child abuse (recommendation 17), which all political parties have pledged to implement; if the recommendation will be included; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9885/10]

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180 Deputy Billy Timmins asked the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2009 whereby, at present, the Health Service Executive may continue to provide after-care to young persons coming out of care when they reach 18 years, but many of our most vulnerable young persons are effectively abandoned when they reach 18, a time at which they are particularly vulnerable to homelessness and the concomitant risk of drug addiction and crime; if the Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2009 will include a provision which would oblige the HSE to provide after-care support to every young person who needs it; her views on a submission by an organisation (details supplied) that guaranteeing after-care is not just the right thing to do, but is also cost-effective, and the fact that the availability of after-care to young people leaving State care is one of the key recommendations of the Ryan report on child abuse (recommendation 17), which all political parties have pledged to implement; if the recommendation will be included; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9885/10]

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