An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business
Seanad Éireann — 2024-01-23
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Gerard P. Craughwell (IND), Labour Panel

I appreciate that this is not the debate. She wrote:
Article 41.2 may not hurt women directly, but it frames our lives, our society and our value. It gives the State the oppressive role of keeping women from careers or employment of our own, ensuring “that mothers shall not be obliged by economic necessity to engage in labour to the neglect of their duties in the home”.
Ms Justice Denham addressed Article 41.2 in a ruling and she said that "... 41.2 does not assign women to a domestic role. Article 41.2 recognises the significant role-----"

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