Michael D Higgins (Galway West, Labour)

In advance of preparations for a constitutional referendum on the protection of the child, will the Government ratify any of the four conventions on the rights of the child that it has not ratified? Of 23 signed but unratified UN conventions, four deal with the rights of the child, including the convention against the trafficking of women and their children. The protection of the child is sometimes misstated as the protection of the rights of the child.

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