Mr. Colm O'Gorman:

It also bans the promotion of homosexuality. That has something in common with a number of EU states. There are a number of states within the EU where laws are being advanced to ban or limit what is called the promotion which, effectively, is any public expression of identity by LGBTI people. In the Irish context, the last two letters of the acronym, transgender and intersex individuals, Ireland has a poor record in respecting their rights, an issue we hope to see addressed in the future. On the question of intersex rights, there has been very little focus on such rights here. We are back to that place again about a need for a strong commitment to human rights principles, principles on law developed and written by states. We want states to be bound by and to respect the law they wrote and at European Union level a coherent approach to human rights as a foreign affairs issue. That requires action. It requires more than words, or law, even though law matters and we are arguing for advances and developments in law. It also requires monitoring, engagement and real political commitment to the principles that are enshrined in law.