Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Second Stage Seanad Éireann — 2024-01-22 ============================================================ Roderic O'Gorman (GP), Dublin West We are continuing to recognise the value of marriage and its special position. In the context of the changes we are making, the State will continually be able to make a distinction between families based on marriage and other families. --- 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