Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin told the Dáil that the government was working on what he called a very serious case involving the sexual exploitation of a teenager. He said the response was facing a fundamental shortage of staff. Martin insisted that the problem was not a lack of funding for the work. His comments drew a distinction between having money available and having enough people available to act on the case. The brief account does not identify the teenager or set out the alleged exploitation. Nor does it name the agency handling the matter or say whether anyone had been arrested or charged.