Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Second Stage Seanad Éireann — 2024-01-22 ============================================================ Michael McDowell (IND), National University of Ireland One might not have understood from the Minister of State, Senator Hackett's contribution, that this debate this afternoon and this section of it, is to deal with the definition of the family. It is not to deal with archaic language about women in the home or anything of that kind. --- Source: Houses of the Oireachtas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The Official Report is revised after first publication; the fetch timestamp below identifies the version quoted. Record URI: https://data.oireachtas.ie/akn/ie/debateRecord/seanad/2024-01-22/debate/main Retrieved: 2026-08-14T04:52:33+00:00 Sitting date: 2024-01-22