Ms Patricia Finlay:

On the 65 cases to which the Deputy referred, HIQA looked at 671 cases and in 65 of them, it sought assurances or clarifications from Tusla. I previously provided a breakdown. We have analysed the key themes in those cases and accept that there were shortcomings and delays. We have been very open and transparent in acknowledging that there have been delays. There have also been issues with regard to a lack of standardisation. It should be noted that in some of those cases, legal injunctions had been brought whereby we approached a person who was subject to an abuse allegation who then brought an application to the court questioning whether we had the power to proceed to interview them on the allegation. I am very conscious of the fact that I cannot talk about any individual case out of the 65 without running the risk of identifying people. That said, to provide reassurance to the committee, some of the questions posed by HIQA were around process issues as opposed to any actual harm being caused to a child by either action or inaction on the part of Tusla. In one case, for example, a child was on our child protection notification system. These are children-----