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The Minister for Children, Roderic O’Gorman, has confirmed to Aontú Leader Peadar Tóibín that his Department has deleted three out of four reports pertaining to children in care, which were sent to him by retired judge Simms some months ago.

The confirmation comes as Deputy Tóibín sought access to the reports via a Parliamentary Question.

Deputy Tóibín said that the Minister for Children’s actions were “impossible to comprehend” – and claimed that the deletion was “clearly a GDPR overreach” – asserting that the Minister might be “using GDPR as cover”for a lack of action and the scandalous use of SEAs (Special Emergency Accommodation).”

“The Minister is directly responsible to ensure the safety of children in state care. A retiring judge stuck his neck out to bring very serious matters to the attention of the Minister for Children. Judge Simms wrote to the Minister in May expressing his alarm over the welfare of children in the care of the State.”

isha wrote: ↑Wed Sep 13, 2023 4:53 pm I was going to put it in WTF but no, I would rather if ye could read this report - by Gript because feck all other media touches this kind of stuff, though I will look for other media links - and tell me what possible justification is there for this, what am I not getting? It's claimed it was due to GDPR but the contents were anonymised.

https://gript.ie/minister-for-children- ... e-to-gdpr/