Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (concluded)

Organisation name in original language

Category of human rights structure

Parliamentary structure/mechanism

Country

Ireland

Type(s) of body

Not applicable

Legal source(s)

  • Established as the Committee on Children, Disability, Equality and Integration by the Dáil Éireann on 30 July 2020 and by the Seanad Éireann on 25 September 2020.
  • Title changed to the Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth by an order from both houses of the Oireachtas on 24 May 2021.

Human rights capacity support

  • None

Functions

  • Examined and reported to the houses on the expenditure, administration and policy of the Department of Children, Disability and Equality and the state bodies that the department is responsible for.

Specific mandates

Not applicable

Structured cooperation with partners at national level

  • Ministers regularly appeared before the committee, as did officers from all government departments.
  • The committee had the right to invite any person to appear and frequently met with representatives of civil society and accepted their submissions.

Structured cooperation with partners at international and EU level

  • None

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