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"en.20130701.19.1-160-000"2
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"Mr President, last month the north of Ireland drew further to the politics of exclusion by passing legislation barring politically motivated ex-prisoners from taking on the role of advisers to executive ministers. I must declare an interest in this issue as my husband is directly affected. Paul Kavanagh, an ex-prisoner who served 15 years in prison and who has been a political adviser for five years to the Joint First Minister Martin McGuinness, will be sacked. We now have a ludicrous situation whereby ex-prisoners can be ministers making decisions – like I was – but not advisers to ministers.
Despite the Good Friday Agreement providing for the employment and reintegration of ex-prisoners, the SDLP and others have allowed the politics of exclusion to re-emerge, imposing a retrospective punishment in breach of Article 7 of the European Convention on Human Rights. It was, after all, discriminatory practices that fed the causes of the conflict in Ireland, so the Irish Government, as a co-signatory of the Good Friday Agreement, should support a challenge to this discriminatory law."@en1
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