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

I want to respond to Deputy Bacik because she has raised an important question about relationships between parents and children and the definition of durability. It is important to say the definition of the family is a capitalised term, "the Family". That is also in Article 41. That same term is used in Article 42. In Article 42 it is very clear that "the Family" includes parent-child relationships as well. That is why we are assured that the family, as protected in Article 41, deals with both those horizontal relationships between two adults but also the relationship between the parent and child and why we do not see a risk of an interpretation that would be narrowed in the way that the Deputy has suggested.

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