Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)

I would certainly like to hear the Minister of State's response to the two questions raised. Is he not ashamed of a report - which he describes as a good report - that documents total incompetence by the Health Service Executive and the Department in ensuring the application across the State of the Children First guidelines? Is he not ashamed that the lessons that were supposed to have been learned from the tragic deaths of Tracey Fay and David Foley clearly were not learned? Moreover, last weekend the remains of another young man, Daniel McAnaspie, were found. I drew his case to the attention of the House last February, when the Minister of State criticised me for naming him and for expressing concern about his circumstances-----

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