AUTHORS & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

AUTHORS

The main authors of this State of the Nation’s Children report are:

  • Sinéad Hanafin, Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs
  • Anne-Marie Brooks, Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs
  • Alan Macken, Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs
  • Gerry Brady, Central Statistics Office
  • Reamonn McKeever, Central Statistics Office
  • Carol Judge, Central Statistics Office
  • Bernie Ryan, Central Statistics Office
  • Saoirse Nic Gabhainn, Health Promotion Research Centre, National University of Ireland, Galway
  • Aoife Gavin, Health Promotion Research Centre, National University of Ireland, Galway

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

We would like to thank all the people and organisations who provided data for this 2008 report,
especially:

  • Aisling Mulligan, Economic and Social Research Institute (Hospital In-Patient Enquiry System);
  • Antoinette Daly, Health Research Board (National Psychiatric In-Patient Reporting System);
  • Census Enquiries, Central Statistics Office; Crime and Criminal Justice Statistics, Central Statistics Office;
  • Eileen Connolly, Department of Health and Children (Childcare Interim Dataset);
  • EU-SILC Division, Central Statistics Office; Garda National Juvenile Office (crime statistics);
  • Fionnola Kelly and Caraiosa Kelly, Health Research Board (National Intellectual Disability Database);
  • Gerry Shiel, Education Research Centre (PISA); Gillian Golden and Nicola Tickner, Department of Education and Science (statistics on education expenditure and school attendance);
  • Gráinne Cosgrove and Hugh Magee, Department of Health and Children (Hospital In-Patient Enquiry System);
  • Jason Sibley and Anna Lloyd, National Treatment Purchase Fund (Patient Treatment Register);
  • John Nolan, John McCusker, Barry McGinn and Aidan Waterstone, Health Service Executive (Childcare Interim Dataset);
  • Mary Ann O’Donovan, Health Research Board (National Physical and Sensory Disability Database);
  • Michal Molcho and Colette Kelly, Health Promotion Research Centre, National University of Ireland, Galway (HBSC);
  • Sheelagh Bonham, Economic and Social Research Institute (National Perinatal Reporting System);
  • Suzanne Cotter, Health Protection Surveillance Centre (Immunisation Uptake Statistics);
  • and Vital Statistics, Central Statistics Office.

We are also very grateful to all the people who provided feedback on individual indicators.