Seanad debates

Wednesday, 18 June 2003

European Convention on Human Rights Bill 2001: Second Stage.

 

I regret that this legislation is only being introduced because of two factors, the first of which is embarrassment at our inglorious isolation in Europe as the only one of the 43 subscribing states which has not incorporated the European Convention on Human Rights since Norway incorporated it in 1999. There was a kind of disgraceful isolation in Europe. The second factor is the Good Friday Agreement which, more or less, put the real pressure on us politically.

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