The human rights organisations who wrote the blueprint say parliamentarians must not let that momentum fade.
Farghadani fell foul of the Iranian authorities after meeting with the families of political prisoners and drawing a cartoon depicting a group of Iranian parliamentarians with faces of animals.
"All parliamentarians carry the people's proxy in terms of fulfilling their obligations to properly represent their constituents.
"Where are the parliamentarians who are bickering back in Baghdad?
McDowell said the country was "in dangerous territory where the alleged privacy rights of the powerful call into question the freedom of speech of our parliamentarians and of the citizens' right to know".
He took over as party leader last December, with 56% of the overall vote, winning heavily among ordinary members and Labour parliamentarians.
"Allegations of corrupt parliamentarians have blighted the body politic in recent years but not one parliamentarian was denied natural justice," he said.
The funny thing is, if you did a poll about the best-behaved parliamentarians, Lucas might well be up there.
The BNP's newly elected European parliamentarians, Nick Griffin and Andrew Brons, have been on the interview circuit today trying to put a new respectable face on the party in front of the nation.
It may also be taken as further evidence of the democratic deficit of the electoral college, which grants a third of votes to parliamentarians, union affiliates and members respectively, and which Ed Miliband himself reformed after becoming leader.
Although this appeal to the parochial record of individual Dail deputies might save a few Fianna Fáil TDs, there is still likely to be a merciless cull of its parliamentarians.
