{"id":17742,"date":"2026-01-22T13:10:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T13:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oco.ie\/news\/opening-statement-joint-committee-on-children-and-equality-child-poverty-and-deprivation\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T13:28:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T12:28:21","slug":"opening-statement-joint-committee-on-children-and-equality-child-poverty-and-deprivation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oco.ie\/ga\/news\/opening-statement-joint-committee-on-children-and-equality-child-poverty-and-deprivation\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening statement: Joint Committee on Children and Equality Child Poverty and Deprivation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Opening statement<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Ombudsman for Children\u2019s Office <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Joint Committee on Children and Equality<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Child Poverty and Deprivation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>22<sup>nd<\/sup> January 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank you to the Committee for inviting the Ombudsman for Children\u2019s Office (OCO) to provide our perspectives on child poverty and deprivation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) gives all children the right to an adequate standard of living. However, the State is currently failing to uphold this right as over 260,000 children live in households experiencing deprivation. The reality behind these figures are children growing up in homes that are cold and mouldy; children going without a decent breakfast or arriving to school in a uniform that is worn out or doesn\u2019t quite fit. It is the reality of not inviting friends over or going to a birthday party or having a local park nearby to play safely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Poverty not only deprives children of their basic needs, but it also deprives them of opportunity and reaching their potential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is no quick fix to child poverty, but we can solve it. To do that, we need to recognise that childhood poverty is driven by structural injustices rooted in the housing crisis, low income, and inadequate provision of services for children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While Ireland\u2019s system of government and public administration is organised along sectoral lines, children and their lives do not fit neatly into siloed sectors. Coordination is crucial in the context of child poverty, where measures sit across the remit of several government departments, including Children, Education, Social Protection, Health and Housing<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since the establishment of the Child Poverty and Well-Being Unit, there has been greater coordination across Departments. However, a sustained focus on child poverty over the term of this Government will be needed to make a meaningful difference. This must start by implementing child rights budgeting. Despite being recommended by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child in 2016 and in 2023, we are concerned at the lack of sufficient progress on this, which creates difficulties in evaluating the effectiveness of expenditure on children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Until we have a full understanding of the budgets being made available for, and being spent on, children, we cannot adequately plan and resource children\u2019s services and supports. We also need to integrate Child Rights Impact Assessments (CRIAs) into the budget process, to ensure that fiscal decisions are compliant with obligations under the UNCRC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In terms of service provision, we need to provide access to universal basic services in line with Ireland\u2019s commitments under the EU Child Guarantee and strengthen interagency coordination and collaboration at national and local levels. Our complaint and investigations team see daily the negative effects that deficits in service provision have on children. Families and children should be able to access the supports they need in a timely manner and without having to navigate a fragmented system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The essence of any child poverty strategy should be increased investment in prevention and early intervention measures. It is not acceptable that we continue to allocate significant resources to plug gaps in the system in a short-term way, allowing issues to get worse and storing up problems for further down the line leading to a much greater human, and economic cost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The social protection system must provide for a Minimum Essential Standard of Living for children and use evidence to direct available resources to those at greatest risk. Article 2 of the UNCRC, requires States to actively identify individual children and groups of children who may require special measures in the realisation of their rights.\u00a0 Disabled children, Traveller and Roma children, children growing up in one parent families and those in kinship care families face a much greater risk of poverty and supports must be provided in recognition of this risk. Children living in direct provision can face extreme deprivation and yet the Child Benefit payments promised in budget 2024 has never been provided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Related to this is our concerns regarding the deficits in the collection of comprehensive disaggregated data on marginalised groups of children as highlighted by the UN Committee. Efforts to include data on the living standards of Traveller and Roma children, children seeking asylum and children in emergency accommodation should also be made to ensure those not counted in official poverty statistics are represented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most importantly, we need to listen to children and ensure their voices are heard, as is their right. Only by listening to children, and including them in decision making, will we get closer to tackling child poverty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Finally, the OCO believes that full and direct incorporation of the UNCRC into domestic law is the single most important thing we can do to protect and promote children\u2019s rights. It puts children and their rights at the heart of every decision. 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F\u00e9adfaidh an OOL gear\u00e1in d\u00e9anta le, n\u00f3 ar son leana\u00ed, i gcoinne gn\u00edomha\u00edochta\u00ed eagra\u00edochta\u00ed poibl\u00ed, at\u00e1 ag sol\u00e1thar seirbh\u00eds\u00ed do, n\u00f3 ag d\u00e9anamh cinnt\u00ed, faoi leana\u00ed agus teaghlaigh, chomh maith le eagra\u00edochta\u00ed ag sol\u00e1thar seirbh\u00eds\u00ed ar son an St\u00e1it, a fhiosr\u00fa.\r\n\r\nT\u00e1 mand\u00e1id ag an OOL le cearta agus leasa leana\u00ed a chuir chun cinn faoi alt 7 Acht an Ombudsman do Leana\u00ed.\r\n<h2>\u00c1r tiomantas<\/h2>\r\n<h3><strong>Cad is f\u00e9idir leat a bheith ag s\u00fail leis on OOL:<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Ta muid tiomanta seirbh\u00eds den scoth a shol\u00e1thar<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Caithfidh muid go m\u00fainte agus go proifisi\u00fanta leat<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Caithfidh muid go maorga agus go meas\u00fail\u00a0 leat<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Teagmh\u00e1il a dh\u00e9anamh ar an bhf\u00f3n: <\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<strong>M\u00e1 dh\u00e9anann t\u00fa teagmh\u00e1il ar an bhf\u00f3n<\/strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Gheobhaidh t\u00fa freagra uainn chomh luath agus is f\u00e9idir;<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Tabharfaidh muid ainm duit nuair a freagra\u00edonn muid do ghlao<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Freagra\u00edodh muid do ghl\u00f3r phost chomh luath agus is f\u00e9idir<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Beidh muid m\u00edn, proifisi\u00fanta I gc\u00f3na\u00ed<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Tabharfaidh muid freagra do do cheist.\u00a0 Mura f\u00e9idir \u00ed a fhreagairt l\u00e1ithreach, t\u00f3gfaidh muid do shonra\u00ed agus cuirfidh muid glao ar ais duit chomh luath agus is f\u00e9idir<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Is f\u00e9idir glao a chur orainn Luan go hAoine ar 01 865 6800 I rith uaireanta oifige.\u00a0 Ma bhaineann s\u00e9 le gear\u00e1n nua n\u00f3 gear\u00e1n at\u00e1 lean\u00fanach, glaoigh an uimhir shaorghlao um Gear\u00e1n ar 1800 20 20 40 idir 9.15am agus 4pm<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Cumars\u00e1id Scr\u00edofa:<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<strong>Litreacha, facsanna 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chaighde\u00e1in sl\u00e1inte agus s\u00e1bh\u00e1ilteacht.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h3>Seirbh\u00eds\u00ed tr\u00ed mean na Gaeilge<\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>D\u00e9anfaidh muid gach iarracht \u00e9asc\u00f3idh le daoine ar mhaith leo teagmh\u00e1il linn tr\u00ed mean na Gaeilge.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Freagr\u00f3far comhfhreagras i nGaeilge tr\u00ed Gaeilge<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Foilseofar, ag an am c\u00e9anna, pr\u00edomhchaip\u00e9is\u00ed mar R\u00e1it\u00e9is Strait\u00e9iseacha agus Tuarasc\u00e1il Bhliant\u00fail<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Comhl\u00edonfaidh muid \u00e1r tiomantas faoi Acht na dTeangacha Oifigi\u00fala 2003.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h3>Comhionannas \/ \u00c9ags\u00falachta<\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>T\u00e1 muid tiomanta seirbh\u00eds a chuir ar fail d\u00e1r gcustaim\u00e9ir\u00ed a seasann lena gcearta at\u00e1 de r\u00e9ir reachta\u00edocht chomhionannais.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Beidh \u00e1r seirbh\u00eds\u00ed agus \u00e1iseanna\u00a0 rochtana do ch\u00e1ch ina measc daoine le riachtanais speisialta.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Gear\u00e1n faoi ghn\u00edomha\u00edochta\u00ed comhlachta\u00ed poibl\u00ed a chuirtear \u00f3s comhair an fhoireann Gear\u00e1n agus Imscr\u00fadaithe:<\/strong><\/h3>\r\nChomh maith leis an\u00a0 tiomantas thuas luaite, m\u00e1 dh\u00e9anann t\u00fa gear\u00e1n:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Rachaidh muid I dteagmh\u00e1il leat taobh istigh de 3 l\u00e1 oibre.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Scr\u00fad\u00f3idh muid \u00e9 chomh luath agus is f\u00e9idir, ag cuimhneach gur f\u00e9adfaidh go bhfuil fadhbanna casta ag baint le roinnt gear\u00e1n<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Tar \u00e9is imscr\u00fad\u00fa a dh\u00e9anamh rachaidh muid I dteagmh\u00e1il leat faoi aon dul chun cinn at\u00e1 d\u00e9anta I do ch\u00e1s;<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Cuirfidh muid ar an eolas duit chomh luath agus is f\u00e9idir faoi tortha\u00ed an imscr\u00fadaithe.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h2><strong>Agus gear\u00e1n a dh\u00e9anamh agat:<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Luaigh do ghear\u00e1n chomh soil\u00e9ir agus 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