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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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  • 30 September 2011
  • Type: Statement

  Contribution by the Ombudsman for Children to Amnesty’s In Plain Sight report

  Contribution by the Ombudsman for Children to Amnesty International Ireland’s report ‘In Plain Sight’ – Read ‘Children’s Rights and the Constitution’ here

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  • 31 August 2011
  • Type: Press Release
  • Topic: Housing

  Ombudsman for Children seeking the views of homeless children

  Children’s Ombudsman, Emily Logan, has today (Wednesday) announced that her Office will be seeking the views of homeless children in order to understand their experiences of homelessness and crisis intervention services. The Ombudsman for Children is ...

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  • 13 July 2011
  • Type: Press Release
  • Topic: Child Protection

  Statement by the Ombudsman for Children on the publication of the Commission of Investigation Report into the Diocese of Cloyne

  The significance of the Commission of Investigation Report into the Diocese of Cloyne is the contemporary nature of the abuse it documents and the failure of the Catholic Church in the Diocese of Cloyne to report ...

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  • 1 June 2011
  • Type: Press Release

  Austin Currie launches Ombudsman for Children’s 2010 Annual Report

  1,223 complaints dealt with in 2010 In-depth advice given on significant pieces of legislation Voices of children in St Patrick’s prison harnessed to bring about change Civil rights activist and former Minister of State, Austin Currie, ...