Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)

Nursing home proprietors and everyone else involved in this area are uncertain about what will happen.

As we are talking about a new Ireland and the need to reform, the Government has indicated on numerous occasions that the heads of the civil unions Bill would be published. We were promised that they would be forthcoming by the end of March and informed a couple of weeks ago that they were almost ready. However, we have not yet seen the heads of the Bill. Are there political difficulties regarding the production of the Bill and the principle of civil unions? I am reasonably confident that neither the Tánaiste nor the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform——

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