X AND OTHERS v. IRELAND - 23851/20 (Judgment : Preliminary objection dismissed : Fifth Section)

This judgment will become final in the circumstances set out in Article 44 � 2 of the Convention. It may be subject to editorial revision.

The European Court of Human Rights (Fifth Section), sitting as a Chamber composed of:

��������� Lado Chanturia , President , ��������� S�ofra O�Leary, ��������� Mārtiņ� Mits, ��������� St�phanie Mourou-Vikstr�m, ��������� Mar�a El�segui, ��������� Kateřina �im�čkov�, ��������� Mykola Gnatovskyy , judges , and Victor Soloveytchik, Section Registrar,

the applications against Ireland lodged with the Court on 16 June 2020 under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (�the Convention�) by X and E (application no. 23851/20) and Y and M (application no. 24360/20 );

the decision to give notice to the Irish Government (�the Government�) of the complaints concerning discrimination in relation to entitlement to family benefit;