Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Bill 2014
Public bill · Government · Presented
Would establish an independent Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission, replacing the Human Rights Commission and Equality Authority and combining and strengthening their powers. It would require public bodies to consider human rights and equality in their work, allow investigations and legal assistance, and create a right to compensation for unlawful detention caused by judicial error.
Formal long title
Bill entitled an Act to provide for the establishment of a body to be known as Coimisiún na hÉireann um Chearta an Duine agus Comhionannas or, in the English language, the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission; to provide for the dissolution of the Human Rights Commission and the Equality Authority and the transfer of their functions to that body; to provide for the conferral of other functions on the said body; to amend the Employment Equality Act 1998, the Equal Status Act 2000 and the European Convention on Human Rights Act 2003; to repeal the Human Rights Commission Act 2000; and to provide for matters connected therewith
Last updated 12 April 2018
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- Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Bill 2014: From the Seanad Dáil
- Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages Seanad
- Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Bill 2014: Committee Stage Seanad
- Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Bill 2014: Second Stage Seanad
- Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Bill 2014: Order for Report Stage Dáil
- Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages Dáil
- Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Bill 2014: Committee Stage Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
- Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) Dáil
- Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Bill 2014: Referral to Select Committee Dáil
- Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) Dáil
- Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Bill 2014: Order for Second Stage Dáil
- Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Bill 2014: Second Stage Dáil