Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick East, Labour)

Some general questions have been asked. What action does the Minister of State intend to take on foot of the recommendations in the report? Will he establish a means of reporting progress on the implementation of the recommendations? When many reports of this nature are published, we are given a commitment that the recommendations will be implemented but there is no follow-up monitoring of how each of them is being implemented. Page 71 of the report states "there is no regional specialist Child Sexual Abuse team or unit available in the West of Ireland". There seems to have been a naive lack of awareness of the possibility that this case might involve sexual abuse. Has that gap been filled? Is such expertise now available in the region?

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