Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

There has been legislation that has been suggested or put forward either by Government or the Opposition over the past number of years where people have said it would be unconstitutional, and therefore we cannot proceed with it. There is a check to that as well. If legislation is passed, it goes to the President, and the President has an oversight role as well. No matter what legislation is put forward in or passed by the Oireachtas, there is always the ability to test that legislation. At the end of the day, opinions and views are only opinions and views. The only one that really stands up, at the end of the day, is when a judge makes a decision that says this is not constitutionally legal. Then you amend that law, or the law passes and it stands up.