Former health ministers urged to come clean on vulnerable children dossiers

People Before Profit: 'This echoes State activity you would more associate with authoritarian regimes and tyrannies'

Richard Boyd Barrett. Picture: Gareth Chaney/Collins

People Before Profit has called on former health ministers in Cabinet to answer questions on what they knew about dossiers being gathered on vulnerable children by the Department of Health.

It has emerged that the Department of Health solicited sensitive information about children with autism and their families who were previously involved in legal actions against the State.