Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 19 September 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
General Scheme of the Thirty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution (Role of Women) Bill: Discussion
9:00 am
Ms Orla O'Connor:
We were concerned with how we bring forward many changes to the Constitution and within that was socio-economic rights. We have not considered it in terms of a bill of rights. We were concerned with how we use the international agreements and their commitments in terms of women and with holding the Government to account on them. Our work on this has very much been through the frame of what needs to be done to advance socio-economic rights within our Constitution.
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