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Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 Jun 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: ..., the Supreme Court. This case affirmed that constitutional rights cannot be swept away by a piece of legislation, such as wardship. It stated that the law itself must be compliant with the ECHR, and it is not enough for deprivation of liberty measures to be simply lawful in a domestic sense. The Supreme Court judgment forced the legal system to ensure deprivations of liberty in all...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (14 Jun 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...with international law, if we want to bring the text of a convention into domestic law, we do so by an Act of the Oireachtas. For example, we signed up to the European Convention on Human Rights, ECHR, and subsequently incorporated it into domestic law. We put the entire text of the convention into a Bill, which became the European Convention on Human Rights Act 2003. We can debate...

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 May 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...23 and 24 and the rigidity they would build into the legislation by creating a definition of personal data rather than using one that develops according to the European Convention on Human Rights, ECHR. I also made known my concerns about amendments Nos. 103, 124 and 125. I do not have anything else to add.