Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Children First guidelines prescribe certain connectivities between various organisations but we still think there is a value in each particular organisation trying to ensure that the appropriate State bodies are directly informed by it. I would not see that as an enormous administrative burden for an organisation. It is a question of furnishing possibly identical information to two different agencies but the Children First guidelines require those agencies to communicate with each other as well.