Dáil debates

Thursday, 1 July 2010

Civil Partnership Bill 2010: Report and Final Stages

 

7:00 pm

Photo of Brendan HowlinBrendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)

Let me put it this way. Subsection 169(4) states that for the purposes of this section two adults are within a prohibited degree of relationship if either paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) applies to them. The Minister refers to the connection between paragraph (b) and the new section 26. I am concerned with paragraph (b). To be within the prohibited degree of relationship it is not necessary that paragraphs (a) and (b) both apply. It is only necessary that one of them apply. Clearly, every same-sex couple would be prohibited under paragraph (a). I do not want to hear about section 26. I am talking about paragraph 169(4)(a).

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