Tusla, the Irish state agency responsible for child welfare and protection, said it had received no referrals or concerns about Kyran Durnin’s attendance or educational welfare between 2022 and 2024.

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

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

Tusla chief executive Kate Duggan said one of the agency’s family resource services had their last engagement with Kyran and his family in 2022.

During the 2021/2022 school year, Ms Duggan said child protective services would have made “significant efforts” to provide extra support to both Kyran and his family.

Talking to Irish broadcaster RTÉ’s This Week programmeMs Duggan confirmed during this time Tusla had received “no referrals of concern through either our child protection services or our education support services”.

“We also know that May 2022 was the last time Kyran was present at school among the young children in his local school,” she added.

No new information or referrals of concern about Kyran were made to the agency between 2022 and 2024, Ms Duggan confirmed.

Earlier this year, when Tusla was involved in another case, staff became aware of information that “caused us concern about Kyran’s whereabouts”, Ms Duggan told the programme.

“At that point we would have liaised with An Garda Síochána (Irish police) with that information.”

Ms Duggan said Tusla had only engaged with the family since April 2024, when the new information was made available.

Last week, Tusla announced an internal review of its interactions with Kyran’s family will not be made public at this time.

Ms Duggan said this decision was taken after consultation with Gardaí.

“When our review is published it will obviously refer to any engagements we have had with Kyran, his family or other members of his family,” she added.

“But at the moment I can’t confirm the details of that because of the live garda investigation.”

• 2021 – 2022 – Kyran was a pupil at a national (primary) school near his home in Dundalk but did not return to school after the 2022 summer holidays
• May 2024 – Kyran’s family have moved from their home in Emer Terrace in Dundalk, where they had lived for several years
• Unknown date in August 2024 – Tusla, the Irish state child protection agency, has alerted gardaí to a “significant concern about Kyran”
• August 28, 2024 – Approximate date the boy and his mother were last seen in Drogheda, according to a missing person report made to the police
• August 30, 2024 – Kyran and his mother Dayla Durnin, 24, were reported missing from their home in Drogheda
• September 4, 2024 – Gardai have issued a public missing persons appeal, asking for help to find Dayla and Kyran
• October 16, 2024 – Gardaí have said they now believe “Kyran is missing, presumed dead” and have confirmed they have launched a murder investigation
• October 21, 2024 – Acting on a search warrant, police take possession of the Durnins’ former home in Emer Terrace, Dundalk
• October 22, 2024 – began a forensic examination of the house, garden and nearby open land
• October 24, 2024 – searches of the house and nearby land are being completed, with police adding that the search results have not been made public for operational purposes
• October 31, 2024 – Tusla announces that its internal review of its interactions with Kyran’s family will not be made public and that information held by the agency about the missing boy was lost in a cyber attack