Written answers
Thursday, 6 July 2006
Department of Health and Children
Unaccompanied Minors
6:00 pm
Liz McManus (Wicklow, Labour)
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Question 199: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of unaccompanied minors referred to the Health Service Executive between the years 2000 and 2006; the number that remain in the care of the HSE; the number that have gone missing or remain unaccounted for while under the care of the HSE; if this information is collated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28005/06]
Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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Information in relation to separated children seeking asylum was not routinely collected by my Department prior to 2001. The information held in this Department on Unaccompanied Minors Seeking Asylum collected as part of the Interim Dataset is set out in the table below.
| Year | No. of UAMS Coming to Attention of HSE | No. Reunited with Family | No. Placed in Care of HSE | No. Found not to be Minor | Other Arrangements Made |
| 2001 | 1,151 | 445 | 560 | 32 | 114 |
| 2002 | 779 | 427 | 282 | 13 | 57 |
| 2003 | 858 | 456 | 285 | 50 | 67 |
| 2004* | 679 | 450 | 176 | 13 | 40** |
| *The Interim Dataset for 2004 has yet to be validated and as such all figures for 2004 are provisional. Figures for 2005 are not yet available. | |||||
| **Contains outcomes for 11 Separated Children yet to be confirmed by HSE Western area. |
I have requested the Health Service Executive to provide you, if possible, with more recent figures and the further information relating to Unaccompanied Minors Seeking Asylum sought by you.
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