Library

• June 2025
• Type: Submission

OCO submission on the International Protection Bill 2025

The OCO has made a submission on the General Scheme of the International Protection Bill 2025. This piece of work builds on the Office’s detailed submission on the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum and Ireland’s ...

• June 2025
• Type: Submission
• Topic: Family law

OCO submissions on the Guardianship of Infants (Amendment) Bill 2025

The OCO has made a submission on the Guardianship of Infants (Amendment) Bill 2025. This piece of legislation seeks to close a loophole whereby a parent convicted of killing another parent retains guardianship of their child ...

• May 2025

2024 Annual Report ‘Tomorrow Start’s With Us’

The Ombudsman for Children’s Office (OCO) continued to receive a high volume of complaints about children’s public services last year, with 1,772 contacts about complaints made to the Office. The OCO’s Annual Report for 2024 Tomorrow Starts with Us shows the complaints are becoming more complex, with ...

• May 2025
• Type: Report

OCO Strategic Plan 2025-2027 Our Path Forward

Our Path Forward 2025-2027 is significant as it comes following the office’s 20th Anniversary in 2024. This strategy is a response to a rapidly changing socio-political and economic landscape. It recognises the progress that has been ...

• May 2025
• Type: Report

Children’s Rights Briefing Papers for Legislators, Civil and Public Servants

The OCO has produced briefing papers on individual children’s rights to increase awareness and understanding of children’s rights. These briefing papers can be used by anyone to improve their knowledge of children’s rights. However, we hope ...

• April 2025
• Type: Report
• Topic: Criminal justice

Child Centred Justice: support for child defendants in the Irish court system 

The Ombudsman for Children’s Office (OCO) report Child Centred Justice: support for child defendants in the Irish court system. Following engagement with the Ombudsman for Children’s Office (OCO), the Department of Justice has introduced a new ...

• April 2025

OCO Payments over €20,000 for Q1 2025

• April 2025
• Type: Finance/OCO records

OCO Prompt Payments Returns for Q1 2025

• April 2025
• Type: Submission

OCO submission on the EU Migration Pact

On the 29th of March, the Government approved Ireland’s National Implementation Plan on the new EU Migration Pact. The implementation of the Pact will directly affect migrant children arriving in Ireland, whether they are seeking asylum ...

• April 2025
• Type: Report

Éilíonn Oifig an Ombudsman do Leanaí tabhairt isteach Mheicníocht Athbhreithnithe do Bhás Leanaí

Tá Child Death Review; A Case for a National Child Death Review Mechanism for the Deaths of Children in Ireland foilsithe inniu (Dé Máirt 1 Aibreán) ag Oifig an Ombudsman do Leanaí. Áirítear leis an tuairisc ...