Seanad debates

Friday, 27 March 2015

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Comhionannas Pósta) 2015: Céim an Choiste - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Marriage Equality) Bill 2015: Committee Stage

 

10:30 am

Photo of Mary MoranMary Moran (Labour) | Oireachtas source

I apologise but I would like to refer to his comments about the Constitutional Convention about which I feel strongly. I was very proud to be part of it. Two thirds of the people on it were members of public. I sat at a table with two people on the first day on the Saturday morning who were vehemently opposed to voting in favour of marriage equality but by the end of the Sunday they were speaking vehemently in favour of it. They had completely changed their view. It is an insult to the intelligence of the people who participated in the convention to imply that people did not have the intelligence to make up their own mind after they weighed up all the evidence. Those comments need to be taken up.

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