Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages
Dail Éireann — 2024-01-17
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Roderic O'Gorman (GP), Dublin West

We do have an idea because we have the existing guardrails contained in Article 41, guardrails that were deployed in the Zappone case when the court prevented a much more minor expansion of a definition within our Constitution. The court used those guardrails and said it was not for it to expand the definition. What the Deputy is suggesting is far more far reaching and there is no practice within the courts-----

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Sitting date: 2024-01-17