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Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: Yes, but ECHR law in this area is evolving and many countries are reviewing their legislation. Some of the legislation to which Senators have referred was put in place quite some time ago.

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: ..., and one would not do it based on the research and also from an equality perspective or any of the criteria from the point of view of meeting Hague Convention standards and in relation to the ECHR.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Draft Commission of Investigation (Mr. Ronan MacLochlainn) Order 2014: Motion (16 Jul 2014)

Frances Fitzgerald: ...with the convention in this matter. The settlement negotiations did not reach a satisfactory conclusion. Instead, in a unilateral declaration which was submitted to the European Court of Human Rights, ECHR, under Article 62(A) of the convention, Ireland admitted to a technical breach of the convention in this instance and, by way of a remedy, offered to conduct a commission of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Draft Commission of Investigation (Mr. Ronan MacLochlainn) Order 2014: Motion (16 Jul 2014)

Frances Fitzgerald: The ECHR struck out the case on the basis of the proposal made. Ms Nic Gibb was awarded €23,000 to cover pecuniary and non-pecuniary damages and expenses. The award has been paid but a civil case is outstanding. I do not have a date for it, but I can inform the committee at a later date. It has been under way for approximately three years