Mr. Gerry Hone:

Where we have concerns of child sexual exploitation, and this is mainly with our own children in Ireland who are in residential care, that is reported to the Garda any time we see that indicated. The Garda follow up on any concerns we present in respect of that for all our children in care. As pointed out by my colleague, it is not the case that we are seeing this with unaccompanied minors at this stage. We cannot say for definite that it is not happening but we are not seeing it and we are not seeing the evidence for that with unaccompanied minors at the moment. We do have a concern around trafficking. This whole situation with unaccompanied minors is ripe for trafficking. We have trained our staff and IHREC has helped us with that training to help identify all the indicators of trafficking. All our staff who work in this field get that training. It has been really helpful. We are then able to notice the indicators in our assessments at an early stage and pass on any concerns to the Garda around that.