Outgoing children's rapporteur criticises lack of engagement from Government depts 

Professor Conor O'Mahony criticised the slow pace within Government in implementing new laws and measures to assist children. Picture: Tomas Tyner

The outgoing Special Rapporteur on Child Protection has said some Government departments did not even respond to his correspondence and said regarding his successor: "Few of them would be attracted to the role as currently designed".

Professor Conor O'Mahony has now stood down after three years in the Government-appointed role, and made his comments in his last annual report as special rapporteur, in which he also criticised the slow pace within Government in implementing new laws and measures to assist children.