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On 13 December 2007, the OCO received an invitation from the Chair of the Joint Committee on the Constitutional Referendum on Children, Mary O\u2019Rourke TD, to make a written submission to the Committee. The Committee\u2019s Orders of Reference include examining the Twenty-Eighth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2007 and making such recommendations as seem appropriate to the Committee.<\/p>\n

In this submission, we returned to the first principles that should underpin change to the Constitution aimed at enhancing children\u2019s rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-992","library","type-library","status-publish","hentry","resource_type-advice","resource_type-submission"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nSubmission to the Joint Committee on the Constitutional Amendment on Children - Ombudsman for Children<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oco.ie\/ga\/library\/submission-joint-committee-constitutional-amendment-children\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"ga_IE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Submission to the Joint Committee on the Constitutional Amendment on Children - Ombudsman for Children\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On 13 December 2007, the OCO received an invitation from the Chair of the Joint Committee on the Constitutional Referendum on Children, Mary O\u2019Rourke TD, to make a written submission to the Committee. 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