Seanad debates
Wednesday, 18 June 2003
European Convention on Human Rights Bill 2001: Second Stage.
I am well aware that the current Supreme Court has essentially been campaigning to roll back that role of the Judiciary, notably in the Synott case, but in some others, too. However, the fact that the court takes the view and that it is fashionable – I know one eminent legal academic in Cork who is also a good friend who takes a similar view – cannot disguise that what we are doing here is not precisely what we said we would do. We are not incorporating the convention into Irish law.
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