The Government is putting young children into unregulated State care with unvetted staff and is putting them in major danger of sexual and criminal exploitation. With all the noise in here in relation to RTÉ, etc., issues such as this are being missed. Children at risk of abuse in society are then being put into flats and apartments by Tusla. They are being minded by unvetted staff and many of them are going missing and are being targeted for sexual exploitation. The CEO of Tusla was on RTÉ last week and said this was not the case. If we look at today's edition of The Irish Times, however, we can see it has a report on a special emergency arrangement, SEA, accommodation provider that supplied fabricated staff checks and vetting. Additionally, internal Tusla reports in July found that staff were allowed to work with children without up-to-date Garda clearance. This is an absolute scandal. What is the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth doing about it?

All right. I thank the Deputy.

The Government and the Minister for children take this issue of any non-compliance with Garda vetting requirements by commissioned services extraordinarily seriously. I referred earlier to this issue raised by the Deputy. Tusla now has an internal compliance unit in place to do exactly as the Deputy suggested concerning examining and stress-testing evidence from providers of special emergency arrangement accommodation in respect of their staff having Garda vetting and adequate qualifications.

It is not regulated.

It was the internal compliance unit of Tusla that detected this issue. The organisation immediately ceased using the service and reported the matter to An Garda Síochána-----

It is not regulated.

Deputy, please.

-----and an investigation is ongoing.