Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

This meeting has been convened to consider Committee Stage of the Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Divorce) Bill 2016. This is a Private Members' Bill that has been sponsored by Deputy Josepha Madigan and I welcome her here today. I also welcome the Minister of State at the Department of Justice and Equality, Deputy David Stanton, and his official. I will invite both Deputy Madigan and the Minister of State to make opening remarks.

To facilitate Deputy Coppinger, I invite Deputy Madigan to make her opening few remarks and then, with the Minister of State's acceptance, I invite Deputy Coppinger to make her brief intervention because she has to leave to attend the main Chamber. Is that agreed? Agreed.