Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

-----as a potential charge on the Exchequer. Anyway, the substantial point remains that the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child includes social and economic rights.

It is a disappointment that we could not have been more explicit in the Bill by including these rights in order that there was a legal and constitutional imperative to provide such things as housing, education at all levels-----

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