Ms Kate Duggan:

There are two things. We work closely with HIQA in making sure we understand and have an open and transparent relationship with it. First, HIQA had concerns that our separated children's service is not digitised. It is just to find it because it was a new service. We will be moving to digitise that early next year. It was the fact it was paper records, and we were manually counting and returning information. Second, HIQA felt in the mainstream setting when a child goes missing, there is an immediate contact with An Garda Síochána because we say this is child is 15 minutes or more missing. However, within the separated children service, we have recorded instances in files where young people will say to us, "This is not my final destination. I am going to meet my family in the UK", or "This is not my final destination. I am going to catch up with family somewhere else."