An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business
Dail Éireann — 2021-09-28
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Sorca Clarke (SF), Longford-Westmeath

A constituent of mine, Patricia, recently applied for a passport for her four-year old daughter, which is a common undertaking for a parent. What should have been a routine task has been anything but that. Patricia and her wife went to court to be recognised as their daughter's legal parents. They waited for parental recognition of same-sex couples by the Oireachtas and they waited for section 21 to be signed into law. To be then told that she cannot apply for a passport because she is not the birth parent adds insult to injury with a trowel. This is not good enough. For how much longer will children such as Patricia's daughter be discriminated against because of the gender of their parents?

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Sitting date: 2021-09-28