Committee delay on children’s rights report ‘shocking’

A DECISION by an Oireachtas committee on children’s rights to delay its final report by at least another six months has been branded as “shocking”.

On Tuesday, the cabinet approved a request by the Oireachtas Committee on the Constitutional Amendment on Children to put off its final report until October.

It had agreed to publish by May and the delay makes the holding of any potential referendum on the rights of the child this year almost impossible.