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Frances Fitzgerald TD, Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, today (11th October, 2012) welcomed the publication of the HSE diocesan audit report. The report is available on the HSE website (www.hse.ie) and on the website of the Department of Children...

Frances Fitzgerald TD, Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, today (11th October, 2012) welcomed the publication of the HSE diocesan audit report....

On November 10th the Irish people will have the opportunity to go to the polls and do something historic. They can vote for or against an amendment to the Constitution that proposes to treat children as individuals in their own right, for the first time in this...

I come before the house to move a bill that will allow for one of the most important referenda in the history of the state. And I would like to begin with thanks. I would like to thank the members of this house on both sides of the political divide who gave so much...

I move amendment No. 1 To delete all the words after Dáil Éireann and substitute:- acknowledges that the untold story of those women who were in Magdalen laundries needs to be listened to with compassion and the facts about the Magdalen laundries...

France Fitzgerald TD, Minister for Children & Youth Affairs has today joined President Michael D. Higgins in celebrating 10 years of the Family Support Agency at an event in Croke Park in...

Dr Geoffrey Shannon, Chair of the Adoption Authority of Ireland (Adoption Authority of Ireland) today signed, on behalf of the AAI, an administrative agreement with the Socialist Republic of Vietnam on intercountry adoption...

Frances Fitzgerald, TD, Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, today attended the official signing of the Administrative Agreement on intercountry adoption at the headquarters of the Adoption Authority of Ireland (AAI)...

For too long in Ireland we lived by the dictum that children should be seen and not heard. On November 10th we have the opportunity change all of that. Because with the Children’s referendum it is proposed for the first time in the history of this Republic..

This will be a historic referendum. A referendum informed by the bitter lessons of our history. But also one that makes a clear statement about our future, our society, and the place of children in it. As a State, some of the darkest moments in our past are a...