Rights of children to provoke ‘terrific fury’

A SPECIAL committee on children’s rights has asked the Minister for Children Barry Andrews to draw up a working text for a change in the constitution ahead of its recommendation for a referendum.

All political parties in the Oireachtas committee have agreed to push for a constitutional amendment on children but expect their pending report to “invoke the most terrific fury” across the country.

Chairperson Mary O’Rourke of the Oireachtas Committee on the Constitutional Amendment on Children said the final wording of the recommended change needed to be agreed.