Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 10 January 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children

Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland

10:10 am

Reverend Christopher Jones:

The first question asked what we intend when we ask for a referendum to reverse the Supreme Court judgment in the X case. We just believe that Supreme Court judgment reversed totally the will of the Irish people. Some 76% of our people voted for Article 40.3.3° of the Constitution. Our wish would be, as one option, that a referendum would give the people a chance to re-establish what they originally wished for and intended. We were very surprised, indeed shocked, that the Supreme Court judgment in the X case-----

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