Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 20 September 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution

Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Engagement with Ms Justice Mary Laffoy, Citizens' Assembly

1:30 pm

Ms Justice Mary Laffoy:

-----would state that. I am sure the parliamentary draftsman's office and the Office of the Attorney General would come up with much better wording than that. However, that is the objective, which is to have legislation that could not be constitutionally challenged, that is, that the position would be certain and the legislation could not be constitutionally challenged in the courts.

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