Simon Harris made the remark when police in Dundalk, County Louth, who were looking into Kyran Durnin’s disappearance, started to dig up a piece of wasteland behind the boy’s old family home.
After the second day of the police search of the terraced house, a digger was working on the property.
Following the reports of Kyran and his mother being missing on August 30, police launched a murder inquiry last week.
Two days prior, he was also said to have been sighted.
Investigators said the boy’s whereabouts are still unknown and he is now assumed deceased, but Kyran’s mother has been found.
Officers think he may have been slain two years ago, despite the claimed sighting.
According to investigators, Kyran’s family lived on the property under search for several years until May 2024.
The present tenants, however, are not thought to be connected to the boy’s disappearance.
After receiving an order from the district court, Irish police seized the property.
The “saddest and most painful thing” about the situation, according to Taoiseach Mr. Harris, who spoke in the Irish parliament today, is that no one inquired about his whereabouts for about two years.
