Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)

The Minister will have noted the commentary in a number of publications by people who are not opposed to the idea of putting Children First on a statutory footing and introducing mandatory reporting. Nevertheless, they are profits of doom and gloom about this in respect of resourcing and the competency of the system to cope in a new situation. Is the Minister using the little time left to exercise herself on the Department's interest and the importance of highlighting to her Cabinet colleagues the critical funding that will be necessary to support the resourcing of the implementation of these measures? We need to give an answer to some of those voices. Some of the commentary is very foreboding and is unhelpful to the Minister's intent, which we support.

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