Sharon Keogan (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I thank the witnesses for their statements today. My first question is about undocumented children who may come into the State without parents. What happens to those children? They end up with Tusla and they end up in care. Sometimes they have difficulties in getting interpreters when they arrive into the immigration centre the following day. What happens to the undocumented children? Do we have a record of how many children per year come into the country?

I also have a real concern around the statement about translation and interpretation. Do we have enough translators? What do we need to do to improve in respect of making sure that those who arrive into our country have quality interpretation services?

To reiterate, my first question was on undocumented children who have no family in Ireland but who just arrive in on an aeroplane and into emergency accommodation and was on where do they go from there. My second was whether the language barriers and the interpretation services are adequate and what we need to do to improve them.