Ms Lorna Kavanagh:

I think the research was mainly focusing on Irish children in residential care. I think that Operation Cosnaím has been dealing with that situation. Certainly we have not had that situation arise in relation to separated children being targeted for sexual exploitation. In general we would be more concerned about labour exploitation. I am not saying that boys could not be exploited sexually either but the vast majority of unaccompanied minors are boys. It has not been something that we have been concerned about. We do liaise with the Garda in relation to labour exploitation and it has advised us that it is not aware of any organised labour exploitation of children at the moment. We meet the Garda regularly, with the trafficking unit, to flag issues and to try to track concerns.