Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions
Dail Éireann — 2024-02-15
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Micheál Martin (FF), Cork South-Central

-----and those reports were subsequently deleted from the Department’s records. However, the Department is addressing the substantive issues to which the reports related and that were set out in the correspondence itself.
These are issues that have to be dealt with in respect of the personal information relating to any individual or child in the State. However, again, legislation is on the way, in terms of the general scheme of the Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2023. Regarding interagency co-operation, which is essential, the children concerned in the correspondence from Mr. Justice Simms require services from a number of State bodies and improved interagency co-operation is essential to ensure better care and services for children in these situations.

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Sitting date: 2024-02-15