Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-12-13-Speech-2-265"
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"Madam President, today we again debate human rights across the world and point out the deficiencies of others.
However, I want to focus this debate on a flagrant breach of human rights perpetuated within this European Union specifically within the United Kingdom. Council Directive 2000/78/EC rightly prohibits religious discrimination in employment. Yet pursuant to a derogation under Article 15 of that directive, the United Kingdom Government is permitted to practise discrimination against Protestants in Northern Ireland who apply to join the Police Service of Northern Ireland, solely because they are Protestants. In consequence, hundreds of exceptionally qualified young Protestant applicants have been refused admission to the police, not on merit, but because there is not a matching quantity of applicants from the Catholic community.
So before this House and the EU parade their human rights credentials, I say: let it set about righting that wrong, implementing the directive on employment in its entirety and ending the outrageous discrimination against the majority community in my country."@en1
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