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  • August 2008
  • Type: Advice
  • Topic: Education

  Advice on issues related to the manifestation of religious belief within schools

  This advice has been prepared further to a request from the Office of the Minister for Integration for our views on issues related to accommodating the manifestation of religious belief within uniform or dress codes in ...

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  • August 2008
  • Type: Advice
  • Topic: Education

  Submission to the Forum on Patronage and Pluralism in the Primary Sector

  In April 2011, the Minister for Education and Skills launched the Forum on Patronage and Pluralism in the Primary Sector and announced the appointment of Professor John Coolahan (Chair), Dr. Caroline Hussey and Ms. Fionnuala Kilfeather ...

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  • March 2008
  • Type: Advice
  • Topic: Child protection

  Advice in relation to the Spent Convictions Bill 2007

  The Spent Convictions Bill, 2007 was introduced as a private members bill by Barry Andrews TD on 25 October 2007 and follows on from a previous, similar private members bill (the Rehabilitation of Offenders Bill, 2007) ...

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  • February 2008
  • Type: Advice
  • Topic: Child protection, Immigration

  Submission on the National Action Plan against Trafficking in Human Beings

  The Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Brian Lenihan TD, announced the commencement of a period of public consultation and invited submissions on the proposed National Action Plan Against Trafficking in Human Beings on 18 ...

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  • February 2008
  • Type: Advice

  Submission to the Joint Committee on the Constitutional Amendment on Children

  On 13 December 2007, the OCO received an invitation from the Chair of the Joint Committee on the Constitutional Referendum on Children, Mary O’Rourke TD, to make a written submission to the Committee. The Committee’s Orders ...

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  • December 2007
  • Type: Finance/OCO records
  • Topic: OCO info

  Financial Statement 2006

  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 2007
  • Type: Finance/OCO records
  • Topic: OCO info

  Annual Report 2006

  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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  • July 2007
  • Type: Reports to the UN

  Report on the examination of Ireland’s First Report under the Optional Protocol to the CRC on the involvement of Children in Armed Conflict

  In July 2007, the Ombudsman for Children’s Office received an invitation from the Committee on the Rights of the Child to submit information relevant to the situation in Ireland as regards the Optional Protocol to the ...

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  • May 2007
  • Type: Research

  Barriers to the Realisation of Children’s Rights in Ireland

  This research was commissioned in 2006 by the Ombudsman for Children as a baseline research study concerning children’s rights in Ireland. Its objective is to identify the principal obstacles children and young people face with regard ...

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  • May 2007
  • Type: Advice
  • Topic: Child protection, Immigration

  Advice on the General Scheme of the Criminal Law (Trafficking in Persons and Sexual Offences) Bill 2006

  The General Scheme of the Criminal Law (Trafficking in Persons and Sexual Offences) Bill was referred to the OCO by the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform on 20 July 2006. In accordance with this ...