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  • 12 June 2012
  • Type: Speech, Statement

  Speech by Emily Logan to the Oireachtas Health Committee on the Heads of the Children First Bill

  Read the Ombudsman for Children’s speech to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children re. the Heads of the Children First Bill. Speech on draft Heads of Children First Bill Read the Ombudsman for Children’s Advice ...

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  • 12 April 2012
  • Type: Press Release
  • Topic: Housing

  Vulnerability of Homeless Children comes through in their own words

  “When you’re in care for that first time, you’re all over the place … and … one thing that needs to stay the same is the place you stay in … You get depressed over it ...

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  • 29 March 2012
  • Type: Press Release

  Children’s Ombudsman formally seeks changes to Ombudsman for Children Act, 2002 to ensure greater protection for all children

  Ombudsman for Children, Emily Logan, has today (Thursday) submitted a formal report, in accordance with her statutory mandate, to the Houses of the Oireachtas and the Minister for Children seeking changes to the legislation that governs ...

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  • 7 March 2012
  • Type: Statement

  Presentation to the Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Social Protection and Education

  Click here to read the Ombudsman for Children’s presentation to the Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Social Protection and Education on education issues

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  • 21 January 2012
  • Type: Speech, Statement

  Speech by Emily Logan at Medico-Legal Society of Ireland’s inaugural Academic Day

  Read the Ombudsman for Children’s speech on the best interests of the child at the Medico-Legal Society of Ireland’s inaugural Academic Day

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  • 5 January 2012
  • Type: Press Release
  • Topic: Child Protection, Education, Family Law

  Government must report to UN Committee on the Rights of the Child on key children’s rights issues

  Key children’s rights and welfare issues such as the continued detention of children in St Patrick’s Prison, child death, child protection, corporal punishment and children’s rights in the Constitution must be addressed in the State’s overdue ...

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  • 23 November 2011
  • Type: Statement

  Irish Times Opinion piece – Children’s rights must be at heart of major decisions

  It is five years ago this month, in November 2006, when the late Brian Lenihan invited me to meet with him to discuss children’s rights in advance of drafting what was to become the Twenty Eighth ...

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  • 15 November 2011
  • Type: Press Release
  • Topic: Child Protection, Youth Justice

  Ministers for Justice & Children must develop new plan for children in St Patrick’s prison following Thornton Hall deferral

  Children’s Ombudsman, Emily Logan, has today (Tuesday) reiterated her call for the cessation of incarcerating children in St Patrick’s adult prison. The Ombudsman for Children is also calling on the Ministers for Justice and Children to ...

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  • 14 October 2011
  • Type: Speech, Statement

  Speech by the Ombudsman for Children to the Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health

  Read speech by the Ombudsman for Children to the Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health here

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  • 11 October 2011
  • Type: Statement

  Presentation by Ombudsman for Children, Emily Logan, to the Joint Oireachtas Investigations, Oversight and Petitions Committee

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