Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Good Friday Agreement was overwhelmingly endorsed on this island in referendums, North and South, and through parliamentary ratification in Britain. It is an international treaty which has been lodged with the United Nations. The British Government, in the Agreement, committed to guaranteeing the rights of minorities, and the Irish and British Governments are its co-guarantors. If the British Government presses ahead with its plan to abolish its Human Rights Act, it will breach the terms of the Good Friday Agreement, with highly negative consequences. The Government, on behalf of Irish people, must send a clear message that we will not tolerate any diminution in the provisions of the Good Friday Agreement. The full implementation of the Agreement and subsequent agreements is necessary.

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