11. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on justice, migration and social affairs will next meet. [56963/25]

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That is disgusting and disgraceful. The Deputy is completely misrepresenting the situation.

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Name calling again.

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I want to raise the serious matter of the death of the Ukrainian child Vadym Davydenko, an unaccompanied minor who was killed in Tusla accommodation. I want to extend my deepest sympathies to his family and friends. It has come to our notice that the suspect in that case may well be an adult. There is documentary evidence to show this. In addition, physical tests are being carried out on the suspect. These may show that he is an adult. Very serious questions arise in relation to international protection and whether those with responsibility in this regard know the individuals who are coming into this country or not. There are also serious questions for the Minister with responsibility for children, because this is not the first time that an adult has been put into accommodation for unaccompanied minors. There is a massive child protection question in that regard. What is the Government doing to investigate the matter and to ensure that what happened in this instance will not happen again?

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There is testing available in this area.

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There are questions. There is testing available in this area that is not being used.

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Does the Taoiseach agree that there is testing available that should be used?

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There is.

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24. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on disability will next meet. [56964/25]

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It is 420 days since I asked the Tánaiste, Deputy Simon Harris, about why Harvey Morrison Sherratt was taken off the waiting list. The Tánaiste has not been able to answer that question in those 420 days. That is an incredible indictment in relation to it. He said in the Dáil that he would immediately ask the HSE and that he would ask the Minister for Health, yet no question has been answered. We saw in The Sunday Times this weekend that a protected disclosure was submitted to the Department of Health. The information in this protected disclosure is catastrophic. The implication is that someone, or a group, took a decision that was not medically based and may have led to the death of Harvey. That is a catastrophic question. The import of that on a government is absolutely enormous. What the Government is asking us to believe is that on one level, the Tánaiste has spent 420 days asking questions in relation to why Harvey was taken off the waiting list and he still did not get an answer and, at the same time, a protected disclosure was given to the Department of Health with the answer. That is an incredible thing. Does the Government understand the import of what has just happened? Why has it taken 420 days for the Tánaiste to answer a question? Have the staff or the management involved actually been asked what has happened?

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Are they refusing to answer what has happened? Why is it that the family only found out through The Sunday Times what happened in relation to their child?

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