Dáil debates
Thursday, 4 July 2013
Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions
Missing Children
3:35 pm
Joan Collins (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source
That is the benefit of a hotline number, as the data can tell us what is happening on the ground. A point was made by Ms Delphine Moralis, the secretary general of Missing Children Europe, indicating that the response rate in 15 member states is 1%, but in Italy and Belgium, where the number is best known, the response rates are 6% and 4% respectively. This relates to promotion of the number. We should work with the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to promote it on all transport modes, including buses, trains, airports and motorways. Those are the lines along which children would move if on their own or abducted. The Minister did not really answer the question about Finland.
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