Seanad debates

Wednesday, 18 June 2003

European Convention on Human Rights Bill 2001: Second Stage.

 

The Irish Council for Civil Liberties strongly promoted the full incorporation of the convention into domestic law by legislation and provided a list of reasons for so doing. It would allow Irish citizens and all those under Irish jurisdiction to have full access to their convention rights and to seek vindication of such rights before domestic authorities without having to undertake an often long and costly case all the way to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. One could go take a shortcut and go directly to Europe, instead of having to go through the High Court, the Supreme Court and then to Strasbourg. It would be a kind of one-stop-shop.

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