Ms Kate Duggan:

I have to be very honest about the concern we all share about the movement of people, whether it is people moving addresses or moving within the country. It is about making sure we have every possible issue addressed to allow us to locate those children, particularly if they have a PPS number. It is about working with the other State agencies and making sure there are no data protection issues or other issues in our way. That is why we looked for an interagency steering group with an independent chair to make sure those agencies were never going to be a factor preventing us getting the information we need to locate a child. One of the things we have committed to is reporting on a monthly basis anything of concern that we see, whether we felt that five, ten, 15 or 20 young people needed a child protection response from Tusla or whether we found we were not able to locate two or three despite our best efforts and had to go to An Garda Síochána. We want to be fully transparent in these circumstances.