Seanad debates

Wednesday, 21 September 2011

It is asking too much of people to request that they insert a wording like this into the Constitution. They are being asked to accept the automatic constitutionality and acceptability of legislation simply because the Legislature argues that it is in the public interest. What else would be stated other than the legislation is in the public interest? A negative value is achieved by inserting this into the Constitution, and the value of what is attempted is to take the matter out of the hands of any kind of scrutiny whatever by the Judiciary, which is a problem.

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