Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I agree there are complications in giving automatic guardianship to any category of father, and there should be conditions in this regard. There is no reason to believe a father who is the parent and happens to be married is any more suitable for automatic guardianship than an unmarried father. The opposite could just as easily be true. In other words, the unmarried father might in some circumstances be more suitable.

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