Seanad debates
Wednesday, 18 June 2003
European Convention on Human Rights Bill 2001: Second Stage.
Significantly, the group also thought that incorporation of the convention in the Constitution might give rise to new gaps in protection in fundamentally important areas, such as the right to trial by jury. There is one further serious question associated with this option which the Constitution Review Group did not address, whether changes of this order of magnitude in the area of fundamental rights and freedoms would be carried by a sufficient majority of the people in a referendum.
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