Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú) | Oireachtas source

The Government is putting young children into unregulated State care with unvetted staff and is putting them in major danger of sexual and criminal exploitation. With all the noise in here in relation to RTÉ, etc., issues such as this are being missed. Children at risk of abuse in society are then being put into flats and apartments by Tusla. They are being minded by unvetted staff and many of them are going missing and are being targeted for sexual exploitation. The CEO of Tusla was on RTÉ last week and said this was not the case. If we look at today's edition of The Irish Times, however, we can see it has a report on a special emergency arrangement, SEA, accommodation provider that supplied fabricated staff checks and vetting. Additionally, internal Tusla reports in July found that staff were allowed to work with children without up-to-date Garda clearance. This is an absolute scandal. What is the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth doing about it?

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