Professor Pat Dolan:

With regard to Deputy O Caoláin's question, children unfortunately do not live in compartments or 15 places. They, hopefully, live in one home, one community and go to one school. I am not being facetious in saying this. If we really want to stop the mistakes we have made, we have to truly have child-centred services. Putting it bluntly, one cannot have professional turf wars or siloed professionals. We know from all the reports that one of the key failings was a lack of sharing of information among professionals and acting on it. It is horrific how bad that was. One of the reasons I am passionate about being involved in the agency is to prevent this happening again.