Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 June 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Constitutional Protection of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Amnesty International Ireland

1:15 pm

Photo of David StantonDavid Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael)
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While the suggestion is that the economic, social and cultural, ESC, rights must be strengthened in the Constitution, any wording that might be inserted into the Constitution is yet to be seen, even though Article 45 contains what I believe are called directive rights.