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  • 7 August 2015
  • Type: Press Release
  • Topic: Children in Care, Housing

  Children’s Ombudsman Highlights Gaps in the Oversight of Children’s Residential Centres

  An investigation by the Ombudsman for Children found significant gaps in the approach to registering, inspecting and monitoring of children’s residential centres which are run by private and voluntary agencies. He has recommended that the inspection ...

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  • 24 July 2015
  • Type: Statement

  Statement by the Ombudsman for Children, Dr. Niall Muldoon encouraging implementation of recommendations of the Working Group on the Protection Process

  Dr. Niall Muldoon stated today that it is commendable that the Minister for Justice and Equality and the Minister of State with special responsibility for New Communities, Culture and Equality established a Working Group in October ...

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  • 2 July 2015
  • Type: Press Release

  Ombudsman for Children welcomes the Report of the Working Group on the Protection Process

  The Ombudsman for Children Office welcomes the publication this week of the Report of the Working Group on the Protection Process. Established in October 2014 by the Minister for Justice and Equality, Ms Frances Fitzgerald TD, ...

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  • 5 June 2015
  • Type: Press Release

  European Network of Ombudspersons for Children (ENOC) “Austerity Bites: Children’s Voices” exhibition is currently on display at the Council of Europe

  The European Network of Ombudspersons for Children (ENOC) links independent offices for children from countries in Europe. Its aims are to encourage the fullest possible implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the ...

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  • 28 May 2015
  • Type: Speech

  Presentation by the Ombudsman for Children, Dr. Niall Muldoon, to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children

  I would like to thank the Chairman for the invitation to meet with the Committee this morning. After working for nearly twenty years as a psychologist, the majority of it spent in the area of child ...

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  • 27 May 2015
  • Type: Press Release
  • Topic: Family Law

  Statement by the Ombudsman for Children on the ruling by European Committee of Social Rights

  The European Committee of Social Rights has today ruled that Ireland and Slovenia are in violation of the European Social Charter because all corporal punishment of children is not prohibited. The decision of the European Committee ...

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  • 22 May 2015
  • Type: Press Release

  Ombudsman for Children publishes his Report to UN Committee on the Rights of the Child

  The Ombudsman for Children, Dr. Niall Muldoon, has published his Report to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.  Dr. Muldoon submitted his Report to the Committee in April and will meet with the ...

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  • 22 May 2015
  • Type: Video & Audio

  Ombudsman says child poverty target ‘unacceptably high’

  View the article and video on RTE.ie

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  • 22 May 2015
  • Type: Video & Audio

  Dr. Niall Muldoon on RTÉ Radio News At One discussing the publication of his Report to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) & ‘A Word from the Wise’

  Listen back to Ombudsman for Children, Dr. Niall Muldoon on RTÉ Radio News At One discussing the publication of his Report to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) & ‘A Word from ...

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  • 22 May 2015
  • Type: Speech

  Bringing children’s rights closer to home

  Op Ed for the Irish Times, by the Ombudsman for Children, Dr. Niall Muldoon As Ombudsman for Children I often return to the question posed by Eleanor Roosevelt, at an event held at the UN in New ...