A public consultation on a draft of Ireland’s next State report under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) will continue until 5pm on Friday 12th November.

Ireland is due to submit its combined fifth and sixth State report to the Committee on the Rights of the Child in February 2022, with an oral hearing before the committee provisionally scheduled for the second half of 2022 in Geneva.

The draft combined fifth and sixth State report responds to a list of issues report provided by the UN committee in November 2020 and the government is welcoming comments until the end of this week.

Written submissions on the State Report are invited from interested parties and can be submitted to the Department at the following email address: [email protected]