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I can assure the Minister we do not like the guillotine either.

Listening to my friend and colleague Senator Higgins, asking the Minister to convince her and give her a reason, I wondered what incentive there is for the Minister to give people a reason to believe when they are quite ready to go ahead and vote for a Bill that is being guillotined in the House, as the last one, on the 39th amendment, was. Provided this debate continues to the scheduled time, there will be another guillotine when it will all be wrapped up again and put as one question. It is scandalous that a Gove…

Life within the home and their duties, not anybody's “place” in the home. If you go to the leagan Gaeilge, táimid ag caint faoi dhualgais a bhaineann le máithreachas, with motherhood.

Sa teaghlach, in the family; motherhood in the family. Whether people like it or not, there are many mothers who value their duties within the family. I could be wrong, and ultimately it is not the critical point, but if there was an honest analysis of the views of Irish women and their representatives in the Oireachtas back then on that provision, I suspect it was a minority viewpoint that held that it was in some way oppressive and limiting. I am entirely open to being corrected by the historians in this matter b…

I understand. My apologies. I do not want to interfere with anybody’s duties, whether in the home, sa teaghlach, nó in aon áit eile. That is the first point. It would be interesting to hear what the views were. I am supporting Senator Keogan's amendment because it is a generous amendment and it is one way to address the issue. I have absolutely no problem saying that the privileging of a mother's duties in the home should be widened to a less gender-specific reference to the duties of parents within the home. I hav…

Senators have told me that they know this, but the fact is that the Government is getting rid of a reference to duties within the home which extend to more than care, although care is a very important aspect. It is replacing it with, as I have said, a rather watery tribute to care being given by family members in a home by reason of the bonds between them. There is the removal of even a nod of constitutional respect to all of those aspects of male and female parenting that cannot be characterised by the term "care"…

Mothers are women too.

I know you do not all agree with that now.

The truth will set us free.

It was not because they were helping women to work outside the home.

That is a great relief to me. They were on the side of the angels.

Tairgim leasú a 3: In Part 1, page 6, to delete lines 5 to 8 and substitute the following: “Admhaíonn an Stát, go sonrach, go dtugann mná agus cúramóirí teaghlaigh, a thugann cúram sa teaghlach, taca don Stát nach bhféadfaí leas an phobail a ghnóthú dá éagmais. Déanfaidh an Stát a chur in áirithe nach mbeidh ar mháithreacha ná ar chúramóirí teaghlaigh, de dheasca uireasa, dul le saothar lasmuigh den teaghlach agus beidh ar an Stát tacú lena ndualgais chúraim.”, I move amendment No. 3: In Part 2, page 6, to delete l…

Cuirim fáilte roimh an Tánaiste. There is a significant Uyghur population in Ireland, many of whom are Irish citizens. Almost all have seen family members impacted by China's extraordinary campaign that has seen over 1 million Uyghur people imprisoned without trial and subjected to extreme levels of abuse and torture. The Chinese Communist Party has not only detained one in ten of the Uyghur population but it is also seeking to wipe out and suppress the rich Uyghur culture through a campaign of coercive assimilatio…

I will conclude by making a reference to Jimmy Lai, whom I regard as a modern white martyr. If ever there was someone who deserves to get our human dignity award, if he ever gets out, it is he. This is a man who could be enjoying one of his many properties anywhere in the world but he chose to stay in Hong Kong to fight for democracy. Our Government, among many other governments, is letting people like him down.

It would help if the media-----

Does the Tánaiste condemn what they are doing?

Does he condemn it? . Deputy Micheál Martin: I emphasise that this position does not detract, in any way, from our long-standing concerns about the situation in Xinjiang or our commitment to upholding human rights globally. We continue to work with our partners in the EU as to how we can best move this issue forward in respect of proper assessment from the EU on the ground, following up on Michelle Bachelet's work. We have no intention of stepping back from the consistent focus on the High Commissioner’s findings. …

It is a consideration.

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