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  • August 2023
  • Type: Advice
  • Topic: Health

  Healthcare supports for transgender children; A children’s rights perspective from the Ombudsman for Children’s Office

  Access to multidisciplinary health services and supports for transgender children and children who are questioning their identity, is a children’s rights issue. Having ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Ireland is obliged under ...

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  • August 2023
  • Type: Submission
  • Topic: Youth justice

  Submission by the Ombudsman for Children’s Office to the Low Pay Commission July 2023

  Children under 18 are currently not entitled to the National Minimum Wage. Instead they are entitled to a sub-minimum rate, which amounts to 70% of the National Minimum Wage. The Low Pay Commission is examining the ...

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  • July 2023
  • Type: Finance/OCO records
  • Topic: OCO info

  OCO Payments over €20,000 for Q2 2023

  OCO Payments over €20,000 for Q2 2023

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  • July 2023
  • Type: Finance/OCO records
  • Topic: OCO info

  OCO Prompt Payments Returns for Q2 2023

  OCO Prompt Payments Returns for Q2 2023

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  • June 2023
  • Type: Investigation
  • Topic: Health

  Scoliosis Treatment for Ivy

  Our investigation centres on the case of Ivy (17) who had been waiting for spinal fusion surgery for scoliosis for five years since 2016. During this time, Ivy, who was born with cerebral palsy, experienced major ...

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  • June 2023
  • Type: Submission
  • Topic: Child Care

  Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2023 – OCO observations

  Following publication of the General Scheme of the Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2023 (General Scheme) in April 2023, the OCO welcomed the opportunity to discuss proposals set out in the General Scheme with the Joint Committee ...

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  • May 2023
  • Type: Submission

  Monitoring and Reporting on Ireland’s implementation of the UNCRC

  Concluding observations and OCO activities

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  • May 2023
  • Type: Report
  • Topic: Finance/OCO records

  Falling Behind – OCO Annual Report 2022

  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 2023
  • Type: Submission
  • Topic: Child Care

  Opening Statement by the Ombudsman for Children’s Office to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, 9th of May 2023

  Oireachtas Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth Opening Statement by the Ombudsman for Children’s Office Tuesday, 9 May 2023   Introduction The Ombudsman for Children’s Office would like to thank the Joint Committee ...

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  • May 2023
  • Type: Report
  • Topic: Mental health

  A Piece of My Mind

  A Piece of my Mind, a new report on children’s mental health from the Ombudsman for Children’s Office (OCO) which surveyed 2,166 children aged 12-17.