Seanad debates
Tuesday, 24 June 2003
European Convention on Human Rights Bill 2001: Report and Final Stages.
What has been provided in the Government proposal is a definite standard, based on the organ of State. I conceded in committee – perhaps in jurisprudential curiosity – that the idea of the organ of State in the Bill is not the same as an organ of State under the Constitution; it is a different definition because some of the higher constitutional organs have been expressly excluded for other reasons, about which, perhaps, I anticipate we might have another discussion.
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