When the Child Care and Children Bills were debated in the House I was critical of the lack of concern about the inspection of institutions caring for children placed with them because of neglect or because they were orphans and so on. I said they were not being inspected often enough and that there was insufficient attention paid to the kind of people working in them. The Children Act requires that there be six monthly inspections of institutions caring for children in the custody of the State because they have committed a crime. Such children may well have regular visitors seeking their release, whereas, by contrast, children placed in institutions because of neglect may never receive visits. Yet, these institutions need only be inspected periodically. When I expressed the view that this was unfair, the then Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children with responsibility for children, Deputy Mary Hanafin, said there was not enough inspectors.