Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I do not criticise the commission for that. It would be unusual if a human rights body was not looking to advance socioeconomic rights. If that happens and it goes into the Constitution, we are then at large as to what can happen. The commission will want wording that is meaningful and that will give effect to rights it states people should have. Let us take the example of an 18 year old who collects his or her sister after national school every day, takes her home and looks after her from, say, 2.30 p.m. until 7 p.m. or 7.30 p.m. when the parents come home. Would that 18 year old be entitled to seek financial support from the State under that constitutional right?