My Department is setting up a project called Access to Institutional and Related Records, AIRR, to archive the record holdings of the Department relating to institutional care for children. This will include an index of individual children named in these records. As the index develops the records of the person (details supplied) will be checked against it and my Department will contact the Deputy directly if any records are found.
I understand that the Eastern Regional Health Authority has been in touch with the Northern Area Health Board in relation to the information sought. The authority has been advised that the child care services section of the Northern Area Health Board has carried out an extensive search of its available records and has found no reference to the person (details supplied) being in care at St. Kyran's Home, Rathdrum, County Wicklow.
The Eastern Regional Health Authority has informed me that in the event of any further information such as details of the person's other place(s) of residence being supplied by the Deputy to the regional chief executive officer of the Eastern Regional Health Authority, Mill Lane, Palmerstown, Dublin 20, in respect of the individual, a more expanded search will be undertaken.