Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Pretty much every country in the Western world has already ratified the convention and the Government is very committed to ratifying it, ideally next month. The majority of countries that have ratified it, just like us, have certain aspects of detailed legislation they have not finalised so we will not be out of line in any way in ratifying it with a few reservations and some legislation that needs to be sorted out. They are already priority legislation but they are particularly complicated particularly with regard to the deprivation of liberty.

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