Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

It is not. The Child Law Project is very important in shining a light on where the State has failed. We learn from that. One of the responses I have made to the work the project has done and my engagement with other NGOs working in this area has been to convene a new committee of statutory agencies. We are bringing together the HSE, Tusla, An Garda Síochána, my Department and the Department of Health because it is too often the case that the types of headlines the Deputy has read out on the experiences children have faced have been the result of State agencies not working together. State agencies are minding their own patches and are not prepared to step outside that in urgent situations. That is why we are bringing together this committee in which individual State agencies can be called to account and driven to co-operate better with each other for the betterment of children. That sort of knowledge comes directly from the work of the Child Law Project.

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