Tommy Broughan (Dublin North East, Independent)
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702. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 599 of 4 February 2014, if the information in respect of children in care in 2013, which his predecessor had indicated would be available in May 2014, is now to hand. [27287/14]

Charles Flanagan (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)
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I have been advised by the Agency that at the end of December 2013 there were 6,462 children in care. A breakdown of the care orders which underpinned the first placement of these children is currently been collated. I will revert to the Deputy when this information becomes available.