Robert Dowds (Dublin Mid West, Labour)
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Question 202: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when she intends to make the third and fourth reports to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, which were expected by 2009. [2750/12]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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I can confirm that Ireland is to present a report to UN Committee on the Rights of the Child later this year. Ireland has already submitted two reports to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) in 1998 and 2005/6 respectively. The report to be submitted this year will be Ireland's combined 3rd & 4th reports to the CRC covering the period from 2006-2011 (inclusive).

The preparation of the report is a complex process which will take some months to complete. An Inter-Departmental Liaison Group chaired by my Department has been established to prepare the report and this group met for the first time last month. My Department has also met with the Children's Rights Alliance (CRA) to brief them on the administrative arrangements for the new report.