Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation
Dail Éireann — 2022-12-15
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Bernard Durkan (FG), Kildare North

I wish to raise with the Tánaiste again the issue of the continued persecution and prosecution of Irish mothers and their children in the family law courts, the degree to which an alien resolution is attempting to be imposed on the law here, for which there is no basis, and the urgent need for an inquiry into the effects of this on women and children and to make an interim arrangement whereby the persecution and prosecution is discontinued. This has resulted, in many cases, in arrests and imprisonment.

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Sitting date: 2022-12-15