Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages
Dail Éireann — 2024-01-17
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Ivana Bacik (LAB), Dublin Bay South

What about the friendship bond? That came up in our hearings. It is perhaps the most expansive way of defining "family" but it is clearly not covered in Article 42B.

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