Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)

I have no problem with people raising issues brought up by the Human Rights Commission. However, where tendentious remarks are put into the public domain to the effect that something may be an infringement of international or domestic human rights provisions, I would much prefer them to say that they believed it to be such. When they come down on one or other side of the equation, I am more impressed. At the time of the constitutional referendum, an argument was addressed by the Human Rights Commission that it might infringe the rights of people born in Ireland.

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