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Wed 12 Dec 2009Number of missing migrant children up
FIVE MIGRANT children have gone missing each month this year, twice as many as for all of last year, the Dáil has heard.
Fine Gael spokesman on migration Denis Naughten sharply criticised Minister of State for Children Barry Andrews who he said had told the Dáil in February that 24-hour care was being provided to unaccompanied children seeking asylum in the State. But the report of the Children’s Ombudsman had shown that “security guards provide care after 6pm”.
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