Reform coming far too slowly - Child protection delays

JUST like it’s difficult to take Donald Trump’s disconnection with reality seriously, we have had so many child abuse scandals that we may have grown weary of them, and the outrage so easily found a decade ago may have been blunted.

However, the confirmation yesterday from the Child and Family Agency that the long-delayed PULSE-style data system for managing child welfare and protection issues will not be operational for two-and-a-half years must at least raise questions. In reality, it should provoke an angry response from the minister responsible — not to mention the rest of us — who should demand to know why such an essential system is taking so very long to get up and running and then set a far more immediate deadline

Imagine if, say, Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary or Glanbia’s CEO Siobhan Talbot’s IT manager told them it would take around 30 months to install a computer system. The conversation would be short, one-way, and targets would be quickly revised. Or else a CV would have to be dusted off and updated.