Dáil debates

Thursday, 11 November 2010

3:00 pm

Photo of Barry AndrewsBarry Andrews (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)

The HSE is acting on the vast majority of the recommendations. They have assured me that they have broken them down into different groups. There will be four regional workshops in early December to try to disseminate the important aspects of the report and other matters in terms of trying to improve the child protection service. The recommendations are being acted on.

On the audit, that started in September and it will be finished at the end of February, not in the far distant future. There may be other concerns in Roscommon and we must be alive to that. There might be other chronic neglect commonalities in other areas to be put in the mix in terms of implementation of this area because it is a discrete area. The Ryan and Murphy reports talked about institutional care whereas we are talking about family neglect, a discrete area that needs to be looked at in a different way.

I agree with Deputy Kathleen Lynch that the recommendations need to be implemented carefully but the HSE has already begun to act on them. As I stated, we will have more information by the end of February.

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