Barry Andrews (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)

The problem is that although many good things are going on in our child protection service, we do not hear about any of them because we cannot report on them due to the Child Care Act and privacy issues in regard to children in care. We do not know about the thousands of children who are living in loving foster care families and who are getting excellent interventions. We cannot know about how things have improved over the past 15 years thanks to everybody who cares about children.

Inevitably and rightly, all we hear about are these kinds of reports but the public is unable to weigh up the balance. What they hear all the time in terms of these tragic reports-----

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