Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 15 October 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade
Binding Treaty on Business and Human Rights at the United Nations: Discussion
2:00 am
Dr. Chris O'Connell:
Again, I may call on Ms Quijano to come in with her expertise. As things stand, the text of the draft treaty contains provisions for administrative, civil and criminal liability. Legal discussions are ongoing as to the precise character, nature and contours of how those would be decided. As Ms Quijano mentioned, the treaty foresees the creation of supervisory authorities at national level to monitor its implementation and administer administrative sanctions. This is as well as reducing the barriers to justice in order that civil liability cases can be brought without strategic procedural defences blocking and being used to draw out proceedings over years or even decades and, as I mentioned, criminal legal proceedings for the most serious human rights violations. I will pass to Ms Quijano to see if she has anything-----
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