Seanad debates

Wednesday, 18 June 2003

European Convention on Human Rights Bill 2001: Second Stage.

 

The Supreme Court will not find many cases where there is a significant margin of difference between the human rights guaranteed by the 1953 convention and the human rights guaranteed by the State. As time goes by the occasions, such as the Heaney, McGuinness and Senator Norris cases, which are a handful of cases where people have failed to get constitutional redress, will almost certainly disappear. They will become, in mathematical terms, asymptotic with a zero axis. They will cease.

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