Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 26 September 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

General Scheme of the Thirty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution (Role of Women) Bill: Discussion (Resumed)

9:00 am

Photo of Jim O'CallaghanJim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

In that case, are we being overly cautious, as a lawyer and a judge, about simply changing it so that it remains a symbolic right but is broadened to include people other than women? Could that be done if we changed it in the way recommended by the Constitutional Convention or as has been suggested by Mr. Dunne and Ms Cox? The courts are hardly going to interpret that differently.

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