Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)

Ba mhaith liom an Dáil a chur ar athló chun an cheist rí-thábhachtach seo a phlé, the deplorable failure of the Government to operationalise the EU's 116000 missing children hotline, which needs to be set up on an island-wide basis. The urgency of this hotline is underlined in particular by the more than 500 non-national children who went missing from HSE care over the past decade, the 183 children reported as abducted in this State last year and research from Barnardos which found that one in six of the children helped by its specialist sexual exploitation service had been moved around the country by the abuser. There is an urgent need for the Government to make funding available so that the 116000 hotline can start.

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