Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions
Dail Éireann — 2024-02-29
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Micheál Martin (FF), Cork South-Central

Included are the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005, the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 and the International Protection Act 2015, which deals with family protection rights. There have been attempts – I am not saying the Deputy has been involved in them – to muddy the water and create confusion but there is a constitutional framework. Our Constitution has two great strengths. The first is the power of the people to amend it, which we are now exercising, and the second is judicial interpretation. Judicial interpretation has applied since the Constitution came into effect. This made it a radical constitution in the 1930s in the context of fascism. The then Executive and Oireachtas ceded some of their rights to the courts. We did that back in 1937.

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