The Government has ordered a review as a “matter of urgency” into the alleged serious sexual assault of a girl who had been under the care of Tusla in west Dublin.
Minister for Children Norma Foley has said that she has tasked the National Review Panel, which examines serious incidents in the care of children, with carrying out an investigation into the incident.
Ms Foley said that it was a “very, very worrying case” but that she was limited in what she could say while a Garda investigation was ongoing.
“I think it’s our human instinct really to want to mind and to guard and protect a child. And I’m really, really conscious that at the heart of this is a child, and I want to say that that child is very much in my thoughts, and, like the rest of the country, in our thoughts and indeed in our heart.”
She announced on Tuesday that she has directed the National Review Panel (NRP) to “immediately be
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