# minister-for-children - Wednesday 21 June, 2017
Ann Louise Gilligan died last week following a short illness.
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# minister-for-children - Friday 5 June, 2015
And it’s going to stay that way.
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# minister-for-children - Wednesday 11 March, 2015
Philip Morris is threatening legal action.
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# minister-for-children - Thursday 13 November, 2014
Minister James Reilly hopes to bring the terms of reference to Cabinet in the near future.
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# minister-for-children - Wednesday 16 July, 2014
Groups representing mothers and their children question why some institutions may not be included.
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# minister-for-children - Saturday 14 June, 2014
The Minister for Children said the investigation into mother-and-baby homes must have a time-limit and be cost-effective.
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# minister-for-children - Monday 9 June, 2014
The information relates to the Tuam home, Bessborough in Cork, and St Patrick’s on the Navan Road in Dublin.
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# minister-for-children - Saturday 17 May, 2014
Since June 2012, just three complaints have been received by Retail Ireland.
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# minister-for-children - Thursday 8 May, 2014
He previously served as Fine Gael front bench spokesperson on Children and Justice.
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# minister-for-children - Saturday 5 April, 2014
Early Childhood Ireland is proposing that a separate strand of funding is immediately ringfenced for private childcare providers.
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# minister-for-children - Tuesday 25 February, 2014
It follows a HSE report late last year that highlighted a number of incidents where young adults died after leaving statutory care.
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# minister-for-children - Friday 20 December, 2013
Minister Frances Fitzgerald said figures for 2013 indicate will be similar to previous years.
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# minister-for-children - Tuesday 17 December, 2013
The Minister said that staff training needed to brought up to the required standards before the scheme could go ahead.
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# minister-for-children - Thursday 24 October, 2013
Gordon Jeyes will head up the HSE report on the two cases in Tallaght and Athlone, with the findings of the review to be handed over to the Children’s Ombudsman.
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# minister-for-children - Saturday 12 October, 2013
Minister for Children Frances Fitzgerald will turn sod on Monday at the site to mark the beginning of construction.
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# minister-for-children - Wednesday 25 September, 2013
The Minister for Children today announced more stringent regulation of the creche sector, but a representative body for creches says that regulation without investment is meaningless.
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# minister-for-children - Friday 20 September, 2013
The latest findings of the large-scale Growing Up In Ireland study are out today. As well as detailing the health and wellbeing of 11,000 Irish three-year-olds, they also show the huge effect of the recession on Irish families.
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# minister-for-children - Tuesday 11 June, 2013
Also attending the meeting will be the CEO of the Child and Family Support Agency and representatives from Early Childhood Ireland.
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# minister-for-children - Wednesday 20 February, 2013
Frances Fitzgerald said the discussions will allow her to explore the feasibility of an agreement on intercountry adoption.
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# minister-for-children - Friday 5 October, 2012
One man was arrested when the car carrying Eamon Gilmore and Minister for Children Frances Fitzgerald was forced to turn back after an Éirígí protest over cuts to child benefit.
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# minister-for-children - Wednesday 19 September, 2012
By voting yes, we can prove that this generation has done more than any other to protect children who have been betrayed in the past, writes Aodhán Ó Riordáin.
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# minister-for-children - Thursday 26 July, 2012
… but was he supposed to be there?
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# minister-for-children - Thursday 5 July, 2012
Nine things to know this morning…
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# minister-for-children - Friday 27 April, 2012
Education and care go hand in hand, argues Irene Gunning, and the care of toddlers and preschoolers can’t be separated as two different processes.
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# minister-for-children - Friday 9 March, 2012
One year ago, the government created a separate Department of Children for the first time – but has it lived up to its promises?
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# minister-for-children - Friday 10 February, 2012
The government has said this week that it has no plans to allow same-sex couples to adopt but what do you think?
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# minister-for-children - Wednesday 1 February, 2012
The hotline number was reserved for over four years before ComReg received an application to operate it.
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# minister-for-children - Monday 12 December, 2011
The traditional model of a married couple making up a family is in decline, according to a major new study which looked at family structures in Ireland.
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# minister-for-children - Wednesday 12 October, 2011
A study commissioned by the ISPCC found that one-third of primary school children did not know how to keep their social network account private, while one in six secondary students had met someone in person after meeting them online.
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# minister-for-children - Monday 26 September, 2011
A study into the Ferns, Murphy, Ryan and Cloyne child abuse reports criticises the lack of prosecution against child sexual and physical abusers and those who concealed that abuse.
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# minister-for-children - Tuesday 30 August, 2011
The inquiries concern a Carraig na bhFearr boarding school run by the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart.
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# minister-for-children - Tuesday 19 July, 2011
In today’s Fix: Ireland’s first female Chief Justice is named; News International heads face questioning over alleged phone hacking; and the Rubberbandits take New York…
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# minister-for-children - Thursday 7 July, 2011
A recent report published in the UK said that retailers, broadcasters, the government and parents all had a part to play, and included a number of proposals.
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