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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 ...

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  • March 2007
  • Type: Advice
  • Topic: Education, Transport

  Submission to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Education & Science Regarding School Transport

  This report has been prepared in response to the invitation for submissions made by the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Education and Science regarding the issue of school transport catchment boundaries. The provision of school transport is ...

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  • March 2007
  • Type: Report

  Report to the Oireachtas on the Twenty-Eighth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2007

  In a speech on 3 November, 2006, An Taoiseach announced his intention to hold a referendum on children’s rights and that he had requested the Minister for Children, Brian Lenihan, to initiate a process of consultation ...

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  • December 2006
  • Type: Finance/OCO records
  • Topic: OCO info

  Financial Statement 2005

  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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  • December 2006
  • Type: Advice

  Advice on the proposed referendum on children’s rights

  In giving this advice, it was the view of the OCO that changes must be made to Articles 40, 41 and 42 of the Constitution in order to provide for express protection of the rights of ...

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  • September 2006
  • Type: Finance/OCO records
  • Topic: OCO info

  Annual Report 2005

  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 ...