Mr. Gerry Hone:

Under any of those safety plans, all the checks should be done if a recommendation is made that a child be placed with a relative or elsewhere. The checks on those relatives are done under the child protection notification system. These are multiagency meetings that are independently chaired. An Garda Síochána attends those meetings. Any individual who is mentioned in the context of a care arrangement for a young person can be checked.

Things fall through the cracks at times and there is no doubt about that. When that happens, we review those situations so we can strengthen our systems to make things better for those young people.