Seanad debates

Wednesday, 18 June 2003

European Convention on Human Rights Bill 2001: Second Stage.

 

The Minister said that the possibilities of conflict were few. He used a wonderful phrase about this being "asymptotic" towards zero. I did not think lawyers knew enough about mathematics to be able to put such a phrase together, but it just shows that, if they are obliged to, lawyers can manage most things. There is a possibility of fundamental conflict, in this instance, between the convention and our Constitution.

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