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Ireland. An Act (No. 140 of 1998) to implement Council Directive 96/34/EC of 3 June 1996 on the Framework Agreement on Parental Leave concluded by UNICE, CEEP and the ETUC, for that purpose to amend certain enactments and to provide for related matters. Dated 8 July 1998. (The Parental Leave Act, 1998). (Internet address below)
Irel.00.010
Sec. 6 lays down that, subject to certain conditions, an employee who is the natural or adoptive parent of a child is entitled to leave from his or her employment for a period of 14 working weeks in order to take care of the child.

http://www.bailii.org/ie/legis/num_act/pla1998140

Ireland. The Youth Work Act. Act No. 42 of 2001. Dated 1 December 2001. (Reproduced from the ILO's NATLEX database with permission. Original text published in Official Gazette, Acts, December 2001, No. 42, pp. 1-29)
Irel.01.012
Regulates, inter alia, the activities of youth work officers and organizations, national youth work committees, and voluntary youth councils.

Notes : Repeals the Youth Work Act, 1997.
http://natlex.ilo.org/scripts/natlexcgi.exe?lang=F

Ireland. An Act (No. 303 of 1998) to prohibit trafficking in, or the use of, children for the purposes of their sexual exploitation and the production, dissemination, handling or possession of child pornography, and to provide for related matters. Dated 29 June 1998. (The Child Trafficking and Pornography Act, 1998). (Internet address below)
Irel.00.009

http://www.bailii.org/ie/legis/num_act/ctapa1998303/

Ireland. An Act to revise and extend the law relating to the protection of young persons in employment and to enable effect to be given to Council Directive No. 94/33/EC of 22 June 1994 on the protection of young people at worka (other than Articles 6 and 7) and for those purposes to repeal the Protection of Young Persons (Employment) Act, 1997, and certain provisions of the Conditions of Employment Act, 1936, and to provide for related matters. Dated 26 June 1996. (The Protection of Young Persons (Employment) Act, 1996). (Internet version provided by the British and Irish Legal Information Institute)
Irel.00.004

Notes : aSee IDHL, 1994, 45, 484, EC 94.48.
http://www.bailii.org/ie/legis/num_act/poypa1996469/

Ireland. An Act (No. 24 of 2001) to make further provision in relation to the care, protection and control of children and, in particular, to replace the Child Act, 1908, and other enactments relating to juvenile offenders, to amend and extend the Child care Act, 1991, and to provide for related matters. Dated 8 July 2001. (The Child Act, 2001). (Internet address below)
Irel.03.003
The Child Care Act, 1991 (see IDHL, 1992, 43, 291, Irel. 92.2) is amended by the insertion of the following new Parts: IVA. Children in need of special care or protection (Secs. 23A-23N); and IVB. Private foster care (Secs. 23O-23X).

http://www.bailii.org/ie/legis/num_act/2001/2001-24.html

Ireland. An Act (No. 13 of 2006) to amend and extend the Parental Leave Act 1998. Dated 18 May 2006. (The Parental Leave (Amendment) Act 2006). (Internet address below)
Irel.06.008
The 1998 Act (see IDHL, 2000, 51, Irel. 00.010) is amended with respect to, inter alia, the conditions governing entitlement to parental leave.

http://www.oireachtas.ie./documents/bills28/acts/2006/a1306.pdf

Ireland. An Act (No. 26 of 2007) to amend the Child Care Act 1991a and to make consequential and other amendments to the Children Act 2001;b and to provide for related matters. Dated 8 May 2007. (The Child Care (Amendment) Act 2007). (Internet address below)
Irel.07.012
Amendments concern, inter alia: definitions; and the change of name of the Special Residential Services Board to the Children Acts Advisory Board.

Notes : aSee IDHL, 1992, 43, 291, Irel. 92.2.
bSee ibid., 2003, 54, Irel. 03.003.
http://www.oireachtas.ie/documents/bills28/acts/2007/a2607.pdf
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