Cases ‘had little to do with child protection’

Recent events surrounding Garda involvement in two cases of children who were taken on the basis of conjecture from their homes into care, are reminiscent of the darkest days of European history.

These cases have very little to do with child protection but stick odiously to tenets of ignorance and xenophobia.

There has been no compliance by the HSE and the Garda to the legal framework in place for genuine child protection cases and a full investigation must be conducted into how it came to be that two children were arbitrarily taken into care.