While I welcome anything that moves in the direction of human rights and their greater acknowledgement by the Legislature, I regret that the overwheming advice given to the Government from all bodies, including the Human Rights Commission that it established, has not been taken on board. We have gone for the minimalist approach that has landed us in a series of legislative contradictions. The former distinguished Member of this House, Dr. Maurice Manning, chairman of the Human Rights Commission, said: "We felt then that a more robust approach would strengthen human rights here and would facilitate ordinary citizens". In other words, it also saw this as the least useful of all the options. To reiterate, Professor Binchy said there were three options: one good; one less good; and one absolutely not so good. For which one have we gone? We have gone for the least good of all the options in a slavish imitation of the United Kingdom Government which is operating in a different legal context.