Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 26 June 2025
Committee on Children and Equality
Engagement with Office of the Ombudsman for Children
2:00 am
Aidan Farrelly (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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Dr. Muldoon mentioned trends in issues that are coming to his office, whether that is education, Tusla or children's health. We engaged with the office through youth work quite often and they were always fantastic experiences. Would Dr. Muldoon accept there is probably a level of agency or support required to even get to a place of making that complaint to his office? Notwithstanding the very impressive outreach work that happens, is there more the State could do, or budgets could do, to further enhance this? I imagine Dr. Muldoon would agree the 1,700 figure is probably a decimal fraction of the issues out there. How could we progress that work even further to amplify those voices?