Watchdog seeks clarity on child referendum [IrishTimes]
- Published: 16 April 2010
THE GOVERNMENT was yesterday urged by the Ombudsman for Children, Emily Logan, to give its view on the proposed wording on the constitutional amendment to protect the rights of children so as to provide clarity on the matter for the electorate when it is put to referendum.
Ms Logan said that given the length of time taken to effect change and get political agreement on the wording now proposed by the Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Constitutional Amendment on Children, it was important that matters were progressed quickly.
It’s always difficult to predict when the currents of change will gather pace and when events such as the Murphy and Ryan reports accelerate them – and for that reason, it was important to move now when there is real political and public debate about the rights of children, she said.
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