Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 22 February 2017

Committee on Public Petitions

Decisions on Public Petitions Received

1:30 pm

Photo of Seán SherlockSeán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)
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The key point is that as parliamentarians, we would join the Government in pointing out that Ireland has signed various human rights declarations and treaties and a whole corpus of human rights law. As the members have concluded, the best course of action is to refer this petition to the Department of the Taoiseach. Is that agreed?