Ms Orla O'Connor:

We would favour an amendment. At the Constitutional Convention the National Women's Council put forward that the Constitution should be amended and that there should be a recognition of care. We are conscious of some of the issues around this, particularly around the definition of the family. There is a question of where. We are very conscious of what IHREC has said, namely what it would mean if we were to put this into Article 45. That is part of the reason we want to opportunity to thrash this matter out in more detail and we are very conscious that that opportunity was not there at the Constitutional Convention. The rights of the carer and the rights of the person receiving the care need to be further deliberated upon.