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Children's Minister to be quizzed over disappearance of Kyran Durnin
The Children's Minister is to be quizzed in the Seanad over the disappearance and murder of little Kyran Durnin.
Norma Foley will be asked to give an update on the Tusla Review into the case, none of which has been made public so far.
The request for an update was made by Drogheda Senator Alison Comyn almost three years to the date since he was last publicly seen alive at a school in Dundalk, Co Louth.
Despite a series of searches of various houses in Co Louth so far no body has been found and although two people were arrested over the murder, no one has been charged.
Tusla, the Child and Family Protection Agency must carry out a review any time a child on its books or in its care, dies to see what lessons can be learned.
Kyran, who was six years old when he vanished, was missing for two years before Tusla noticed he was gone.
A different child was brought to meetings with social workers pretending to be Kyran.
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Senator Comyn said: "It is three years since Kyran's last confirmed sighting at the end of June, 2022. He was only reported missing in August last year and is now sadly presumed dead.
"There are still serious questions to be answered about who else knew what given that Tusla had engaged with the family in the months before Kyran disappeared.
"I have requested that Minister Norma Foley come to the Seanad to discuss what further information she has received since her most recent statement last year on this matter.
"Obviously Gardai are working on establishing the circumstances surrounding his disappearance and everyone hopes justice is served for this little boy's sake.
"But procedures need to be put in place to ensure something like this must never happen again to another child."
She urged members of the public who had any information about Kyran to contact the Garda in Drogheda.
One of the two people arrested later killed himself while the other, a woman, left the country and is living in England. The man denied any involvement in the child's murder before he took his own life.
Kyran would be nine years old if he were alive today.
