Aideen Hayden (Labour) | Oireachtas source

Nobody is doubting that constitutionally this is a matter for decision by the Executive. However, an Executive should operate on the best possible advice available and there should be the widest possible inclusion in the decision-making process.

On the earlier commentary regarding parliamentary systems, there is plenty of evidence among the northern European parliamentary systems that the consensus model is very productive. In relation to rights, there is not an acceptance of progressive realisation in relation to rights such that one can have rights to a home and job but it is acknowledged that they would be realised progressively as the economy and society are in a position to realise them.