Claire Kerrane (Roscommon-Galway, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate the steps the Minister has taken and the work that will be undertaken on the back of the report specific to this case, and rightly so, as that needs to be done, but I also want to impress on the Minister the need to look at the care system today. The Children's Residential and Aftercare Voluntary Association has repeatedly called for a review of Ireland's care system. It has raised repeatedly the increase in unregistered and uninspected for-profit providers in the system. The Child Law Project has raised issues relating to the care system and judges have, at various points in time, raised issues and voiced despair at the system. While it is important we see steps taken on the back of this report, I also ask the Minister to look at the care system today.

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