Dáil debates
Wednesday, 22 February 2017
Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions
Good Friday Agreement
3:00 pm
Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
23. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will confirm that when he stated in his recent press statement on 14 February 2017 that it is essential that none of the human rights protections or frameworks underpinned by the Good Friday Agreement are disturbed by any changes that are consequent to a Brexit agreement, that this includes the Northern Ireland Act 1998 and all the human rights and constitutional protections therein that give effect to the Good Friday Agreement; the action the Government as co-guarantor has taken, in view of the fact that the Agreement is inviolable as part of a UN recognised international treaty, to ensure the delivery of the outstanding human rights protections of that Agreement, including the bill of rights; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8824/17]
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