Clare Daly (Dublin North, Socialist Party) | Oireachtas source

From we have read, the role of the HSE and social workers was quite limited in both these cases - non-existent in one and hardly evident in the other. The Ombudsman for Children obviously has expertise in dealing with State agencies and children are the very clear victims in this scenario. The Garda Síochána is a particular State agency that is difficult to investigate. The body statutorily set up to do that is the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission. We must make changes to allow the Ombudsman for Children to investigate the Gardaí in a field in which she does not have that capacity currently, which seems a bit remiss to me. Could the Minister confirm whether the role of the HSE and social workers was minuscule and whether the media, which played a huge role in respect of why the Garda intervened in the first place, will be covered?

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