Tusla, the Irish government agency responsible for child protection and protection, said it will not conduct an internal review of its interaction with Kyran Durnin’s family audience.

Kyran was reported missing at the end of August but last week gardaí (Irish police) said the boy is now “presumed dead” and they launched a murder investigation.

Detectives believe the child may have been killed more than two years ago, when he was six years old.

Searches were made earlier this weekon a private property at Emer Terrace in Dundalk, County Louth, where the family lived until May 2024, as well as adjoining land.

RTÉ reported that a spokesperson for Tusla said: “In accordance with standard practice in sensitive situations, and in the context of the live investigation by An Garda Síochána and the highly sensitive nature of the personal information involved, the review cannot be published at this time.”

Tusla previously said that in August it alerted gardaí to a significant concern about Kyran.

The agency also said that while Kyran was not in its care, it had engaged with him and his family. Last week it opened an internal review into its interactions with Kyran and his family.

Information held by the agency about the missing boy was lost in a cyber attack.

Tusla said the system affected by the attack “was not the case note recording system” and was not relevant to the agency’s internal review of its interactions with Kyran’s family.

But the Irish Independent, which first reported the data lossquoted sources as saying it was a “matter of concern” for gardaí.