Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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625. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which the investigative structures within her department are deemed adequate to meet current and future requirements as evaluated by reference to the time taken to respond to individual cases; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15453/17]

Katherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent)
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The nature of my Department's work is significantly oriented towards policy development and co-ordination of actions across agencies, rather than dealing with individual cases. Accordingly my Department has no formal investigative functions or structures of the type that the Deputy may have in mind. There are of course systems for dealing with issues raised by members of the public under the Department's Customer Service Charter and Action Plan 2015-2017and the Department has written procedures in place for dealing with disclosures made under the Protected Disclosures Act 2014.