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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)

...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...

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)

...: I will make a final comment. I welcome what Mr. Durkan said. It is hugely encouraging because the joint committee has a fundamental role to ensure that the European Convention on Human Rights, ECHR, is not down played in the context of Brexit. We are surprised that more attention has not been brought to it because it is so fundamental. It is a key aspect of the Good Friday...

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)

...they control excessive state actions. Those are the pressure points at which states make mistakes and interfere with people's rights. That is something we need to consider when we think about the ECHR and its fundamental role in protecting peace on the island of Ireland.

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)

Ms Saoirse Brady: I would add to that in terms of devolution and the ECHR. There is a role here for the national human rights institutions. For example, the Scottish Human Rights Commission has raised the issue of repealing the Human Rights Act and what that means in terms of the Scotland Act. I assume there is a similar provision setting up the commission in the North. The members of...