James Geoghegan (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)

Okay. Obviously, the situation in respect of that poor girl who was allegedly sexually assaulted is that she was an unaccompanied minor. Two weeks ago, representatives from Tusla appeared before the committee and we were dealing with the subject of unaccompanied minors in the IPAS system. I put the question to them in respect of unaccompanied minors and missing children, of which there were several, and they put it in terms of days how long they were missing. I asked whether there had been any bad outcomes and the reply given at that stage was that there had not been. Obviously, since then, in less than 20 days, there have been these two horrific tragedies. One of the things that Tusla did identify is that it is Tusla's responsibility, or it is left with the responsibility, to age verify the unaccompanied minors it is looking after in a kind of colloquial way because it is relying on the Department or An Garda Síochána or whosever responsibility it is to carry out that process, but it is actually not being carried out in a timely fashion. Does Ms McPhillips accept that criticism or that contention?