Seanad debates

Wednesday, 18 June 2003

European Convention on Human Rights Bill 2001: Second Stage.

 

It is also wrong to imply there is an entire corpus of convention rights wholly distinguishable from the personal rights accorded to Irish citizens under the Constitution. This is also trotted out regularly as the basis for criticism of this Bill, among others – that in some sense we are short-changing the people because we are not incorporating into Irish law a corpus of rights floating around and which only require political will and ambition to anchor and hold for the people of this jurisdiction.

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