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Organisation of Working Time (Reproductive Health Related Leave) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Hear, hear.

Organisation of Working Time (Reproductive Health Related Leave) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I move: "That the Bill be read a Second Time." I am sharing time with my seconders, Deputies Brendan Howlin and Ged Nash, who will be taking five minutes each.

Organisation of Working Time (Reproductive Health Related Leave) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Five years ago, in 2019, I was approached by my Labour Party colleague, Councillor Alison Gilliland, who has since been Lord Mayor of Dublin and who was then an official of the Irish National Teachers Organisation, INTO. She approached me because many members of the INTO had approached her and other officials to express concern about having to take time off work to undergo treatments for...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Active Travel (18 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 154. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the publication schedule for the 2024 Walking and Cycling Index reports for Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway and Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2239/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (18 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 185. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) will be moved into is permanent accommodation. [2240/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Properties (18 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 186. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans for the former Rathmines College premises. [2241/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Bodies (18 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 216. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the report from the AHB Unencumbered Units Working Group will be published. [2238/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (18 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: 253. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of deaths in custody in 2023. [2242/24]

An Bille um an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: What about the friendship bond? That came up in our hearings. It is perhaps the most expansive way of defining "family" but it is clearly not covered in Article 42B.

An Bille um an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: Some clarity has been offered today, which was helpful. It would be helpful if the Electoral Commission was able to assist in giving some of that, not directly the Attorney General's advice but certainly a legal basis for the Government's decision to move away from the wording of the Oireachtas joint committee. That would be really helpful in the course of the debate on the referendum.

An Bille um an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Minister for the very full response. I think he has given us some helpful insights, particularly into the rationale for the wording chosen and for moving the clause into a new article 42B. That is certainly very helpful to hear, but just taking up that last point about "strive" or "endeavour", there is not much between those two words. I would say again that the wording that...

An Bille um an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I will speak to our amendment, which is amendment No. 2. I very much welcome the debate and the introduction of a Bill to amend Article 41 in respect of two things - the current sexist language within it, which refers to a woman as having a life within the home and mothers as having duties within the home. The language in Article 41.2° of the Constitution has long been regarded as...

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: But we also have established case law that states that polygamous marriages are incompatible with the understanding of marriage in Ireland and the Irish Constitution.

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

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An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

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An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: With respect, I also put questions to the Minister.

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: With respect, we have established criminal laws against bigamy and polygamy. Presumably that will also be part of this. I do not think there is any reality to Deputy McNamara's points because we have such established law already.

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: How could it be moral if it is based on a relationship that is illegal in Irish law elsewhere?

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: We changed the Constitution

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Minister for his response, which has been helpful. I agree that the text in the Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023 is a vast improvement on the current text in Article 41, in that it enables the recognition of family units beyond those based on marriage. We have all acknowledged that. Cohabitees and single-parent families will be recognised for...