Dr. Niall Muldoon:

We have found that the State has said one part of it is the parent. It has said the child protection section of the HSE is the only parent whereas it is also the Department of Education and Skills, the Department of Finance and the Department of Social Protection. This requires everyone to be the parent, which is what corporate parenting is. It is the whole entity looking after the child holistically as opposed to saying we have a Child and Family Agency and it is all on that. It needs to be much more co-operative.