When the State decided to sign up to these international agreements, an important factor to be taken into account was that we were in a position to meet our obligations under them by virtue of having a Bill of Rights under the 1937 Constitution. I make no apology for stating again and again that we are alone among the member states of the European Union and other states on the Council of Europe in having a written Constitution which embodies a system of fundamental rights chosen by the people which are unalterable save by the wish of the people and made superior and justiciable at the instance of the individual over all other law both in theory and in practice.