Day: 7 October 2014

MLRC, as part of the ESC Rights Initiative, has submitted Open Letters to the Taoiseach and Tanaiste calling on the Government to accept the Constitutional Convention’s recommendation to strengthen Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the Constitution

On 31 March the Constitutional Convention recommended to the Government, by an overwhelming majority of 85%, that ESC rights be given enhanced protection in the Constitution. The Government was due to respond to the recommendation by the end of July. Disappointingly and in breach of the Conventions’ terms of reference, we now understand that this […]