Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)

The preparation of this report is being progressed within my Department in line with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, UNCRC, and in consultation with the statutory and non-statutoty sectors. The report will cover the period from 2005-10, inclusive.

My Department is working to have a draft ready before the end of this year and submitted to the UN as soon as possible thereafter. Preparatory work to identify key areas of statutory responsibility has now been completed and requests for updated information will issue shortly to relevant Departments. The responses I received from the various Departments will be incorporated in the report, which I intend to submit as soon as possible. If we have the draft before the end of this year, the report will be published shortly after that.

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