In April 2021, the Participation framework: national framework for children and young people’s participation in decision-making was launched by the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (DCEDIY).¹ The framework aims to support departments, agencies, and organisations to improve their practice in listening to children and young people and giving them a voice in decision-making.

On 15 April 2021, Minister of State for Law Reform James Browne TD and Minister for Justice Helen McEntee TD launched a new Youth Justice Strategy 2021–2027.^1,2 It is centred on a developmental framework that aims to target ongoing and emerging challenges in youth justice.²

The Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018 in Ireland has been praised as a world-leading package of alcohol policy reforms. The path to alcohol policy change in Ireland was long and winding as well as politically perilous.

Alcohol consumption has long been a source of major health and social problems in Ireland. A combination of factors undermined previous attempts to address alcohol as a public health issue, including the considerable political and economic power wielded by the alcohol industry and the failure of the Government to develop a fully integrated approach across its departments and agencies.