Seanad debates

Wednesday, 18 June 2003

European Convention on Human Rights Bill 2001: Second Stage.

 

I know the Minister is worried at times by the relationship between common law and Roman law and so on. I do not necessarily always go along completely with him on the total superiority of the systems of law we have on these islands over those on the Continent but obviously the European Convention on Human Rights and the way it is implemented blend our law with European rights and traditions. There is much that is positive in European legal traditions and I have no particular queasiness about them. There are negatives involved but there have been negatives in our case also; the system of human rights protection we had, which we have praised all morning, unfortunately did not prevent serious cases of child abuse in previous decades. We need to keep our perspective and improving the position.

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