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  • 5 June 2015
  • Type: Press Release

  European Network of Ombudspersons for Children (ENOC) “Austerity Bites: Children’s Voices” exhibition is currently on display at the Council of Europe

  The European Network of Ombudspersons for Children (ENOC) links independent offices for children from countries in Europe. Its aims are to encourage the fullest possible implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the ...

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  • 28 May 2015
  • Type: Speech

  Presentation by the Ombudsman for Children, Dr. Niall Muldoon, to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children

  I would like to thank the Chairman for the invitation to meet with the Committee this morning. After working for nearly twenty years as a psychologist, the majority of it spent in the area of child ...

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  • 27 May 2015
  • Type: Press Release
  • Topic: Family Law

  Statement by the Ombudsman for Children on the ruling by European Committee of Social Rights

  The European Committee of Social Rights has today ruled that Ireland and Slovenia are in violation of the European Social Charter because all corporal punishment of children is not prohibited. The decision of the European Committee ...

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  • 22 May 2015
  • Type: Press Release

  Ombudsman for Children publishes his Report to UN Committee on the Rights of the Child

  The Ombudsman for Children, Dr. Niall Muldoon, has published his Report to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.  Dr. Muldoon submitted his Report to the Committee in April and will meet with the ...

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  • 22 May 2015
  • Type: Video & Audio

  Ombudsman says child poverty target ‘unacceptably high’

  View the article and video on RTE.ie

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  • 22 May 2015
  • Type: Video & Audio

  Dr. Niall Muldoon on RTÉ Radio News At One discussing the publication of his Report to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) & ‘A Word from the Wise’

  Listen back to Ombudsman for Children, Dr. Niall Muldoon on RTÉ Radio News At One discussing the publication of his Report to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) & ‘A Word from ...

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  • 22 May 2015
  • Type: Speech

  Bringing children’s rights closer to home

  Op Ed for the Irish Times, by the Ombudsman for Children, Dr. Niall Muldoon As Ombudsman for Children I often return to the question posed by Eleanor Roosevelt, at an event held at the UN in New ...

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  • 8 May 2015
  • Type: Press Release

  Ombudsman for Children’s Office looking to hire a Director of Investigations

  The Ombudsman for Children’s Office currently has a vacancy for the role of Director of Investigations. Full details can be found here: http://www.publicjobs.ie/publicjobs/campaignAdvert/18972.htm Director of Investigations Booklet: http://www.publicjobs.ie/publicjobs/campaignAdvert/18972/booklet.htm Applications should be made online through www.publicjobs.ie by 28th May 2015

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  • 7 May 2015
  • Type: Press Release
  • Topic: Immigration

  Ombudsman for Children’s Office welcomes PSOP Committee call to extend remit in relation to Direct Provision

  The Ombudsman for Children’s Office has welcomed the publication today of the Report from the Dáil Joint Committee on Public Service, Oversight and Petitions (PSOP) which recommends that the remit of the Ombudsman for Children be ...

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  • 28 April 2015
  • Type: Statement
  • Topic: Health

  Children’s Ombudsman welcomes legislation amendment to ensure adopted children have same right to health insurance

  Read the Sunday Business Post article titled “Varadkar closes health cover loophole” – 12th April 2015