Jillian van Turnhout (Independent)

My question to the Leader is in regard to No.15.6 on the Order Paper which deals with the missing children hotline. This motion, which I drafted with my colleagues Senators Mark Daly, Feargal Quinn and many others who put their names to it, has agreement across the House. Unfortunately, children are falling between the gap of the Minister for Justice and Equality and the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, both of whom consider responsibility for putting this hotline into operation is the other's. Everybody agrees we should have it. Sixteen EU states have it and yet we cannot get it over the line. I ask the Leader to provide Government time, at the earliest opportunity, to discuss a definitive plan as to how the hotline can be put into operation - not to discuss the needs and merits of its - and to uphold our obligations to the children of Ireland and also to the EU.