Ms Pamela Benson:

We need to see changes. What would happen is the child will turn up at an airport, the guards would more often than not evoke a section 12, put the child into immediate safety and contact us. They would be given into our custody, and we would go from there. We would look to see if it is down the route of the unaccompanied minor or if the child is already known to our service, which sometimes happens. It only happened recently in an out-of-hours case when they were known to our service returning. It would depend on the route it would go down. However, there is a lot of engagement with the Department of justice as recently as a meeting yesterday about it with some of the staff in my office and the unaccompanied minors area within Tusla. We are progressing that.