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Seanad: Commencement Matters: Criminal Legal Aid (5 Jul 2017)

Jim Daly: ...been in operation for just over 50 years and is instrumental in enabling the State to meet its legal obligations including rights-based requirements under the European Convention on Human Rights, ECHR, to ensure access to justice and fair hearings and trials. The State dedicates significant resources to detecting crime and in prosecutions. We must be conscious also of the need to ensure...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (30 May 2017)

Charles Flanagan: ...framework of human rights protections under the Good Friday Agreement, and the protection of human rights in Northern Ireland - including through the incorporation of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) - is one of the key principles of the Agreement. In Northern Ireland, the human rights provisions of the Agreement support the confidence and willingness of all...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement on Citizenship Rights: Professor Colin Harvey, Mr. Liam Herrick and Mr. Michael Farrell (27 Apr 2017)

...of the EU brings with it two very important guarantees of human rights protection. It is a condition of EU membership that all member states must adhere to the European Convention on Human Rights, ECHR, and all member states are now bound by the Charter of Fundamental Rights, which has the status of the founding treaties of the EU. There is also a commitment in the Good Friday Agreement...

Other Questions: Good Friday Agreement (12 Apr 2017)

Charles Flanagan: ...the incorporation of the European Convention on Human Rights, is one of the key principles underpinning the Good Friday Agreement. It is important to be clear that the European Convention on Human Rights, ECHR, is separate and distinct to the European Union. The UK’s decision to leave the EU has no impact on its obligations under the ECHR. Even after the UK leaves the EU, there...

Defence Forces: Motion (4 Apr 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...; - the voluntary buyout of border duty allowances for enlisted personnel; and - the additional incremental points in pay scales for new enlisted personnel posts; - reflect in law the European Court of Human Rights ruling ECHR 280 (2014) which found that the blanket ban on trade unions within the armed forces is a violation of Article 11, freedom of assembly and association, of the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Conventions (4 Apr 2017)

Charles Flanagan: ...to safeguard its institutions and principles, including in the area of human rights. The protection of human rights in Northern Ireland law, incorporating the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), is one of the key principles underpinning the Good Friday Agreement. At their first meeting in London on 26 July 2016, the Taoiseach and Prime Minister May reaffirmed that the Good...

Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2017)

Micheál Martin: ...notwithstanding the European Court of Human Rights. I have met with Dr. Conor O'Mahony of the UCC child law clinic to go through this with him and a case is now being prepared to go back to the ECHR. We had all the outrage of two weeks ago, but this is all going on under our noses while the Government resists a proper, humane response. Are we seriously saying to these victims,...

Seanad: Pensions (Equal Pension Treatment in Occupational Benefit Scheme) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (22 Mar 2017)

Ivana Bacik: ...his or her 60th birthday or within three years of being able to do so legally. There is a strong legal argument that the exemption is required by a judgment of the European Court of Human Rights, ECHR, which has also ruled on this. While David Parris's case went to the ECJ, there is further case law from the ECHR under the convention. The case of Taddeucci and McCall v. Italy in 2016...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: European Court of Human Rights Rulings (28 Feb 2017)

David Cullinane: 828. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the plans his Department has in place to reflect in law the European Court of Human Rights ruling ECHR 280 (2014) which found that the blanket ban on trade unions within the armed forces is a violation of Article 11, freedom of assembly and association, of the European Convention on Human Rights; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Issues (8 Feb 2017)

Charles Flanagan: ...the incorporation of the European Convention on Human Rights, is one of the key principles underpinning the Good Friday Agreement.It should be noted that the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) is separate and distinct to the European Union. The UK’s decision to leave the EU has no impact on its obligations under the ECHR. Even after the UK leaves the EU, there will be a...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Security (8 Feb 2017) See 1 other result from this answer

Catherine Connolly: ...at Dublin and Shannon airports; the mechanisms in place to ensure Ireland's obligations under the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, TFEU, and the European Convention on Human Rights, ECHR, in pre-clearance areas at Dublin and Shannon airports; the procedures for withdrawal from the pre-clearance agreement; the bases upon which any withdrawal would be contemplated by the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: International Agreements (7 Feb 2017) See 9 other results from this answer

Catherine Murphy: 591. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the procedures in place to ensure Ireland’s obligations under the TFEU, the ECHR and other applicable international laws are fully complied with in preclearance areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5376/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Immigration Policy (2 Feb 2017)

Róisín Shortall: ...dual citizenship; the steps he is taking to ensure this order does not interfere with obligations of non-refoulement; the measures he is instituting to ensure obligations under the TFEU and the ECHR are fully complied with in pre-clearance areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5172/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Human Rights (2 Feb 2017)

Róisín Shortall: ...with dual citizenship; the steps he is taking to ensure this order does not interfere with obligations of non-refoulement; the measures he is instituting to ensure obligations under the TFEU and the ECHR are fully complied with in the preclearance area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5171/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Implications for Good Friday Agreement of UK Referendum Result: Discusssion (Resumed) (12 Jan 2017) See 3 other results from this debate

...condition for peace on the island of Ireland. One of the important building blocks for peace on the island of Ireland, and particularly in Northern Ireland, is the European Convention on Human Rights, ECHR. It was passed in 1948 following the Second World War and is the main human rights treaty for the Council of Europe. It is fundamental to the institutional and policing changes that...

Priority Questions: Human Rights (25 Oct 2016)

Charles Flanagan: ...in the context of my discussions with the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Mr. Brokenshire, MP, and I am not discouraged by his reply. I am, however, aware that outside the question of the ECHR there have been concerns expressed across Northern Ireland about the status, post-Brexit, of those human rights provisions which are connected with EU membership, including the EU Charter...

Other Questions: Child Abuse Prevention (4 Oct 2016) See 1 other result from this debate

Carol Nolan: Will the Minister outline his Department's implementation of the O'Keeffe judgment of the European Court of Human Rights, ECHR, in respect of child sex abuse?

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jul 2016)

Mark Daly: ...pressure being brought to bear on her that she would be destroyed financially because all legal costs would be sought by the State. She then took the State to the European Court of Human Rights, ECHR, and won. We owe her a huge debt. The ECHR said that the State should have been aware of the risk of child abuse in schools and that it was obliged to protect the children. A total of 210...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: UK Referendum on EU Membership (5 Jul 2016)

Charles Flanagan: ...Ireland law and this is an ongoing obligation. The Government has underlined this obligation in the context of British Government proposals to repeal the UK Human Rights Act, which incorporates the ECHR into domestic law and will continue to monitor the situation closely. As co-guarantor of the Good Friday Agreement, the Government takes very seriously its responsibility to...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Agreements (29 Jun 2016)

Charles Flanagan: ...Ireland law and this is an ongoing obligation. The Government has underlined this obligation in the context of British Government proposals to repeal the UK Human Rights Act, which incorporates the ECHR into domestic law and will continue to monitor the situation closely. As co-guarantor of the Good Friday Agreement, the Government takes very seriously its responsibility to...