Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages
Seanad Éireann — 2024-01-23
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Roderic O'Gorman (GP), Dublin West

Respectfully, we disagree with that approach.
Importantly, the second element of the Senator's proposal is the restriction of the term "durable relationships" to one that only arises between two people. We have a real concern with that in the situation where there is a one-parent family with more than one child or there is a cohabiting couple with children. We have always been clear that those family relationships have to be protected within what we are trying to propose here. I feel that the outcome of the Senator's particular proposal limiting to two-parent families would completely undermine that effort to make sure-----

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Sitting date: 2024-01-23