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Here you can find all our press releases and statements and some speeches made by Niall or members of the OCO team.
Latest News - Type: Statement
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- 18 September 2012
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Irish Times Opinion Piece – Amendment can advance children’s position in the State
I think it is worth reminding ourselves at this time of the contemporary and positive news in relation to children in Ireland. As many jurisdictions are consumed by the global recession and Ireland faces its own ...
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- 12 June 2012
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Speech by Emily Logan to the Oireachtas Health Committee on the Heads of the Children First Bill
Read the Ombudsman for Children’s speech to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children re. the Heads of the Children First Bill. Speech on draft Heads of Children First Bill Read the Ombudsman for Children’s Advice ...
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- 7 March 2012
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Presentation to the Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Social Protection and Education
Click here to read the Ombudsman for Children’s presentation to the Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Social Protection and Education on education issues
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- 21 January 2012
- Type: Speech, Statement
Speech by Emily Logan at Medico-Legal Society of Ireland’s inaugural Academic Day
Read the Ombudsman for Children’s speech on the best interests of the child at the Medico-Legal Society of Ireland’s inaugural Academic Day
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- 23 November 2011
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Irish Times Opinion piece – Children’s rights must be at heart of major decisions
It is five years ago this month, in November 2006, when the late Brian Lenihan invited me to meet with him to discuss children’s rights in advance of drafting what was to become the Twenty Eighth ...
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- 14 October 2011
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Speech by the Ombudsman for Children to the Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Read speech by the Ombudsman for Children to the Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health here
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- 11 October 2011
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Presentation by Ombudsman for Children, Emily Logan, to the Joint Oireachtas Investigations, Oversight and Petitions Committee
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- 30 September 2011
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Contribution by the Ombudsman for Children to Amnesty’s In Plain Sight report
Contribution by the Ombudsman for Children to Amnesty International Ireland’s report ‘In Plain Sight’ – Read ‘Children’s Rights and the Constitution’ here
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- 18 April 2011
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Irish Times Opinion Piece – Rights of children a key issue in applying best practice to inter-country adoption
Read the Irish Times opinion piece by the Ombudsman for Children –IRights of children a key issue in applying best practice to inter-country adoption
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- 23 February 2011
- Type: Speech, Statement
Speech by the Ombudsman for Children, Emily Logan, at the Royal College of Surgeons Annual International Nursing & Midwifery Research
“Promoting Patient Centred Care in Times of Change – the Challenge for Nurses and Midwives” Speech by the Ombudsman for Children, Emily Logan, at the Royal College of Surgeons Annual International Nursing and Midwifery Research Conference ...