Jerry Buttimer (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Would Ms Corbett go over that again because I did not get it?

It is confusing and I am sorry if I am not making it clearer. What the children and family relationships Bill proposes to do is introduce a form of guardianship that would be extended to the spouse or civil partner to allow him to create a legal relationship with the child. Rather than requiring the mother to give up her own child for adoption and re-adopt that child as part of a married couple, one could create a special form of guardianship to allow a connection between the non-biological parent and the child.