Failure to backdate child welfare and delay in granting subsidiary protection breached constitutional rights of child

Judicial review - refusal of Chief Appeals Officer to backdate application for child benefit - whether child entitled to support from child benefit from the date of his birth - history of asylum and subsidiary protection applications by parents from 2007 - subsidiary protection granted to mother from May 2012 - applications for child benefit from 2008 - refusal of child benefit prior to May 2012 - scope of leave application - s. 246 of the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 - no oral hearing - no reason for failure to hold oral hearing - challenge to legislation - Council Directive 2004/83/EC of 29th April, 2004 - European Union (Subsidiary Protection) Regulations 2013, S.I. No. 426 of 2013 - prior ruling on subsidiary protection and welfare - constitutionality of section 246 of Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 - delay in granting subsidiary protection - no discretion to backdate welfare if delay in granting subsidiary protection - no explanation for delay in granting subsidiary protection.