Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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1159. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans for Ireland to ratify the Second Optional Protocol of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. [12898/19]

Katherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent)
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I am strongly committed to the ratification of the Second Optional Protocol. Preparations to ratify the Protocol are at an advanced stage and my Department will shortly be making a submission to the Attorney General proposing its ratification. Once approved, I will seek a Government decision on the ratification of the Convention at the earliest possible opportunity.

I greatly look forward to advancing progress on this important area of work and moving towards the confirmation of Ireland’s ratification of the Second Optional Protocol in the near future.