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Text Only | Irish Examiner: While drawing a distinction between those in secure care and those on remand — welfare versus criminal — later on, he says that it is a "lottery" which side of the line some children happen to land. "A personal view, as opposed to a chief executive’s perspective, is that should be much more seamless," he says. "I think that the detention schools should be directly within this agency, I think it is a lottery that the distinction between whether or not young people are getting support as a consequence of the criminal justice system or the child welfare system, it’s the same young people, so if we distinguish as we are trying to do at the moment, between their needs, which is our side of the house, and their deeds the justice side of the house, we are not meeting all of their needs."?