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
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (Cork South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
I would like to make a few points in response to that. As Mrs. Justice McGuinness has suggested that the difficulty with including a provision of this nature in Article 45 is that it might well be disregarded as all the other parts of Article 45 have been. I am trying to understand whether, as far as Mrs. Justice McGuinness can see, it would be the case that if we were to adopt a wording like that proposed by the Constitution Review Group, there would be no obvious cause of action. I know that is not the argument she is making, but it is a fair suggestion to make?
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