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
Mr. John Dunne:
An example I gave was that under the assisted decision-making legislation, if the State wants to put thousands of parents and carers into a legal limbo, I would challenge that on the basis that it is clearly unfair and unreasonable. If Article 41.2 was modified, I might say that it also undermines care in the home. We have situations where someone will go into a home and say there is a big man in a bed and that it takes two people to work a hoist but we do not have the budget for that and go away again. There may well be grounds, where the principle is accepted, that we provide care in the home, but if it is too difficult to provide the care, we will not. That might be possible grounds. These are unusual ones. They are not typical, and it is certainly not about socio-economic rights.
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