Barry Andrews (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)

This report relates to the death of David Foley, who presented himself voluntarily for care services when he was 14 years old in 2002, and died three years later. I do not want to pre-empt the findings, but I can confirm that this is an internal inquiry. I will receive the report this week. I will have to look at the report before I can make any statement on how, when or to whom publication would occur.

The findings will be outlined in this report, as well as a chronology of the issues that gave rise to him being in care and any gaps that may have occurred. I hope that it will be a full analysis of the situation and will enable us to avoid repeating these failings. It is unacceptable to have to wait three years for this report and I will try to establish why that happened.

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