Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 25 June 2014
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Constitutional Protection of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Amnesty International Ireland
1:15 pm
Mr. Colm O'Gorman:
It depends on what the Deputy means by a proper place. It would mean the failure to provide a service to that individual could be challengeable ultimately before the courts if it could be demonstrated that in how the State allocated resources and provided services, it had not done the best it could to realise the rights of that individual within the limits of available resources and the competition that existed for resources. I am not talking about an individual or micro approach to rights but about a broad process.