Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)

I cannot see that there is because children of that age would be in attendance at second level schools. Clearly, if the school was aware of a concern, the normal practice would be for the principal of the school to alert the local social services about the difficulty. That would be the best practice to follow for a school principal who was worried that there might be a child protection concern about a person resident with a family in Ireland. In that case, the principal would alert the social services and it would be up to the HSE to investigate the matter.

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