International Protection Bill 2026: Report and Final Stages
Seanad Éireann — 2026-03-25
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Rónán Mullen (IND), National University of Ireland

----whereby the council held out a certain state of affairs as being an obligation that schools had to use pronouns and suggested that they might be on the wrong side of the law when, in fact, the law is in no way settled on those issues at all. We had an NGO receiving money, I think from the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission, towards the preparation of this document that misrepresented the law for political purposes. I offer this as an example to show that human rights advocates and human rights academics sometimes like to lead us to believe that a certain state of affairs must apply as a matter of human rights law when, in fact, they are very often pushing their own agenda - an agenda might be shared by practically all of them. That is an example of groupthink;, it is not necessarily an example of correctness.

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Sitting date: 2026-03-25