Seanad debates

Tuesday, 24 June 2003

European Convention on Human Rights Bill 2001: Report and Final Stages.

 

We now live in quite a sophisticated society. Perhaps we need this double focus because the degree to which institutions within the State are genuinely private is quite different from what it would have been in the Victorian era. There is a whole network of supports within the State in which private hospitals and schools participate. It is astonishing that a proportion of schools and hospitals should appear to be exempt from the operations of the Bill, even though we know these are two of the prime locations for abuse of the rights of the vulnerable. It seems to be more than ever necessary for these rights to be protected.

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