Publication of child protection reports
Robert Troy asks why a child protection report has remained unpublished for months. The Taoiseach says one report was a pilot and another was cleared by Cabinet, while Micheál Martin criticises the delay.
Last week, we learned that a report on child neglect in three jurisdictions remained unpublished by the HSE for 14 months. The Minister, Deputy Fitzgerald, confirmed in response to a parliamentary question that she was in receipt of the Government's independent rapporteur's report on child protection since January of this year.
We are waiting almost seven months for that report to be laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas. Will the Taoiseach indicate when it will be done?
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I understand that was a pilot report. The other report to which the Deputy referred was cleared by Cabinet yesterday.
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It should not take seven months to be cleared.
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There is a well established precedent in regard to the publication of such reports, as Deputy Martin knows well.