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  • 21 Deireadh Fomhair 2025
  • Cineál: Preaseisiúint

  Audience attitudes to harmful and offensive media content are changing – new research from Coimisiún na Meán, IFCO and the Ombudsman for Children’s Office

  New research has highlighted Irish audiences’ evolving attitudes to harmful and offensive media content, with two-in-three adults (67%) reporting that they did not have concerns about seeing or hearing potentially harmful or offensive media content themselves. ...

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  • 14 Deireadh Fomhair 2025
  • Cineál: Ráiteas
  • Ábhar: Inimirce

  Observations on the International Protection Bill 2025 – Joint Oireachtas Justice Committee Opening Statement

  Thank you to the Chairperson and the Committee for inviting the Ombudsman for Children’s Office here today to provide our observations on the General Scheme of the new International Protection Bill (General Scheme). The OCO is ...

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  • 8 Deireadh Fomhair 2025
  • Cineál: Ráiteas
  • Ábhar: Leanaí faoi chúram

  Budget 2026 

  Budget 2026  Budget 2026 is the first of the new Government.  So, what does it tell us about their commitments to children?  We take a look at some of the big-ticket items affecting children and their rights.     Children in Poverty  A ...

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  • 26 Meán Fomhair 2025
  • Cineál: Ráiteas

  OCO progress on Public Sector Duty Commitments

  As a public body and human rights institution, the Ombudsman for Children’s Office (OCO) has a statutory obligation to have regard to human rights and equality considerations in the performance of our functions. This is known ...

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  • 23 Meán Fomhair 2025
  • Cineál: Ráiteas
  • Ábhar: Ceartas Óige

  OCO Youth Advisory Panel Statement to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on AI

  We are here today on behalf of the OCO Youth Advisory Panel and would like to thank the Chairperson and the Committee for inviting us. We welcome the Committee’s decision to hold a special session on ...

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  • 10 Meán Fomhair 2025
  • Cineál: Preaseisiúint

  Cosc ar fhóin i scoileanna – léirítear le taighde nua OCO an fáth nach n-oireann an toise céanna do gach duine

  Foilseoidh Oifig an Ombudsman do Leanaí (OCO) Ní Oireann an Toise Céanna do Gach Duine – tuarascáil ar chosc ar fhóin i scoileanna agus ar chearta leanaí i gcomhar le Painéal Comhairleach na nÓige (YAP) de ...

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  • 10 Meán Fomhair 2025
  • Cineál: Preaseisiúint

  Phone bans in schools- new OCO research shows why one size doesn’t fit all

  The Ombudsman for Children’s Office (OCO) published One Size Does Not Fit All– a report on phone bans in schools and children’s rights with the OCO’s Youth Advisory Panel (YAP). As well as presenting the views ...

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  • 4 Meán Fomhair 2025
  • Cineál: Ráiteas

  Statement from the Ombudsman for Children, Dr Niall Muldoon in relation to the disappearance and possible death of a child in North Dublin

  “It is shocking that we are dealing with a situation where a child, who at one point was known to the Tusla, could have disappeared four years ago and is now presumed dead. “How could that ...

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  • 14 Lúnasa 2025
  • Cineál: Preaseisiúint

  Children’s rights overlooked during the pandemic – Ombudsman for Children tells Independent Pandemic Evaluation Panel

  The Ombudsman for Children, Dr Niall Muldoon, has today told the Independent Pandemic Evaluation Panel that children suffered disproportionately as a result of Covid measures implemented by the State during the pandemic, with their rights often ...

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  • 25 Iúil 2025
  • Cineál: Ráiteas

  Ombudsman and Ombudsman for Children sign Memorandum of Understanding

  On Thursday 24 July 2025 the Ombudsman for Children, Dr Niall Muldoon, and the Office of the Ombudsman, Ger Deering, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to further their shared commitment towards working together as effectively ...