Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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Question 72: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on calls for the setting up of a new child protection register as opposed to the existing child protection notification system. [19836/11]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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The Health Service Executive (HSE) currently operates a Child Protection Notification System. The system maintains information about children in respect of the whom the HSE is satisfied that there are unresolved child protection issues, including neglect. The function of the system will be clearly set out in the new Children First National Guidance for the protection and welfare of children which I will be publishing later this week. The HSE has advised that it has no plans to introduce an alternative system for the recording of such information.