We must now move on the children’s referendum [sbpost.ie]
- Published: 24 July 2011
Truly putting children first means guaranteeing their rights as individuals in the Constitution, writes Mary O’Rourke
I would like to follow on from the fine piece in last Sunday’s Sunday Business Post entitled ‘Putting our Children First’.
Geoffrey Shannon is the government’s special rapporteur on child protection. Indeed, the government is fortunate in retaining Shannon in that important role, as was the previous government in having him there in the first place. Our committee, the All-Party Committee for the Constitutional Amendment on Children, was also fortunate to avail of his services as we deliberated on our wording.
The events at Cloyne have highlighted for all of us once more how precarious and precious the state of childhood in Ireland is, and the ongoing effort by all governments to rectify matters. Every few years the reports of various dioceses come out, and every few years the picture gets blacker.#
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