Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 30 September 2015

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Marriage Bill 2015: Committee Stage

3:30 pm

Photo of Frances FitzgeraldFrances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I would like to make a couple of points. I have set out the legal advice I have received in this regard. As Deputy McNamara will be well aware, the rights of cohabitants under the 2010 Act are quite limited. The Act provides only for rights of redress in the case of a relationship of dependency. When the Deputy speaks about changing civil partnership, he is really raising a separate question. This is about the Marriage Bill. That is really as much as I have to say about it at this stage.

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