429 Deputy Derek Keating asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the roles and functions of a designated officer under the new Children First legislation whereby an organisation will be required to have a designated officer who will have responsibility for staff and volunteers and to ensure that they are vetted, recruited properly and are trained in safe practices; if the designated officer themselves have to be trained and vetted before they can take up such an appointment; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that, as reported at the recent Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children, designated officers in schools such as principals may not have not been vetted or trained; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33250/12]

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429 Deputy Derek Keating asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the roles and functions of a designated officer under the new Children First legislation whereby an organisation will be required to have a designated officer who will have responsibility for staff and volunteers and to ensure that they are vetted, recruited properly and are trained in safe practices; if the designated officer themselves have to be trained and vetted before they can take up such an appointment; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that, as reported at the recent Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children, designated officers in schools such as principals may not have not been vetted or trained; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33250/12]

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