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Thu 11 Nov 2008Vote on children's rights a 'last resort'
A CONSTITUTIONAL referendum on children's rights should be considered a "last resort" which is unlikely to be necessary to establish a system of child protection, a criminal law expert told an Oireachtas committee yesterday
Dr Tom O'Malley, senior law lecturer at NUI Galway, advised the Joint Committee on the Constitutional Amendment on Children to avoid the temptation to turn the Constitution into a "criminal code" and instead to introduce legislation.
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