Key reports from the State’s special rapporteur on child protection were delayed, internal documents have shown.
Three annual reports were submitted in recent weeks by the outgoing rapporteur, the human rights lawyer Caoilfhionn Gallagher, covering her three-year term in office.
Documents released under Freedom of Information laws show the submission of reports was the subject of protracted correspondence between officials in the Department of Children and Gallagher extending back to 2023.
By the middle of last year, senior officials wrote to Gallagher seeking updates on her first and second annual reports, saying they were “the key output associa
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