Kathleen Funchion (Carlow-Kilkenny, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

My final point is that as angry as everybody is, we obviously have to do something. I want to know what exactly we, as elected representatives, need to do to change this in order that Tusla can go into a facility such as that featured in the programme, where the shutters are down and cots crushed into place beside each other, and state that it has to close. There would have to be supports in place for parents where that would happen. It is all well and good to state that we have to close a facility, which we have to do when children are at risk, but emergency supports also need to be in place for parents. What do we need to do to make this happen, to ensure that it does not take 700 months to resolve and to prevent us all being here again saying that it is a tragedy?