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  • April 2015
  • Type: Reports to the UN

  Report to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child on the examination of Ireland’s consolidated Third and Fourth Report to the Committee

  In this report the OCO outlines its views to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. Since the Committee’s last examination. Ireland has been marked by significant change. Ireland is emerging from a severe ...

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  • February 2015
  • Type: Investigation
  • Topic: Children in care

  Own volition investigation into the HSE’s (now Tusla –the Child and Family Agency) registration, inspection and monitoring service for private and voluntary children’s residential centres.

  In March 2013 the Ombudsman for Children decided to carry out a preliminary examination of her own volition into HSE registration, monitoring and inspection of voluntary and private residential centres for children in the care of ...

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  • December 2014
  • Type: Finance/OCO records
  • Topic: OCO info

  Prompt payments by public sector 2014

  It is a Government requirement that all central Government Departments, the Health Service Executive, the local authorities and all other public sector bodies, including the Ombudsman for Children’s Office pay their suppliers within 15 calendar days of receipt ...

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  • December 2014
  • Type: Finance/OCO records
  • Topic: OCO info

  Financial Statement 2013

  Financial reports provide information on the performance of the Ombudsman for Children’s Office. They allow us to be held accountable for how we manage and use the money we receive. We are required by law to ...

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  • September 2014
  • Type: Finance/OCO records
  • Topic: OCO info

  Annual Report 2013

  The Ombudsman for Children’s Office is required under law to submit to the Oireachtas an Annual Report on the performance of our functions. The annual report is a comprehensive report on our activities throughout the preceding ...

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  • May 2014
  • Type: Finance/OCO records
  • Topic: OCO info

  Ombudsman for Children’s Office Strategy 2011-2016

  It is the Ombudsman for Children’s duty to use her unique combination of statutory functions to rebalance power so as children’s voices, rights and interests are respected in a challenging environment. This means that the Ombudsman ...

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  • May 2014
  • Type: Advice
  • Topic: Family law

  Advice on the General Scheme of the Children and Family Relationships Bill 2014

  The Minister for Justice and Equality published the General Scheme of the Children and Family Relationships Bill 2014 on 30 January 2014. The aim of the proposed legislation is to put in place a legal architecture ...

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  • January 2014
  • Type: Investigation
  • Topic: Children in care

  An investigation into a decision by the HSE (now Tusla, the Child and Family Agency) to cease a Section 10 Payment to a family

  In September 2012, a complaint was submitted to this Office by the Aunt of a young person (A), who was then aged 15 years, regarding a decision by the HSE (now provided by Tusla) to cease ...

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  • December 2013
  • Type: Finance/OCO records
  • Topic: OCO info

  Prompt payments by public sector 2013

  It is a Government requirement that all central Government Departments, the Health Service Executive, the local authorities and all other public sector bodies, including the Ombudsman for Children’s Office pay their suppliers within 15 calendar days of receipt ...

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  • December 2013
  • Type: Finance/OCO records
  • Topic: OCO info

  Financial Statement 2012

  Financial reports provide information on the performance of the Ombudsman for Children’s Office. They allow us to be held accountable for how we manage and use the money we receive. We are required by law to ...