Ciara Conway (Waterford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Members welcome the passage of the Marriage Bill through the Houses but prior to its introduction and the constitutional referendum on it, the Oireachtas passed the Children and Family Relationships Act, of which only one section has been commenced. When will the other sections be commenced? I understand it is between both the Department of Children and Youth Affairs and the Department of Justice and Equality but many families have outstanding issues in respect of inter-family adoption that cannot proceed because all the sections of this Act has not been commenced. I ask the Tánaiste to relay the urgency of this issue to her colleagues because many families are in limbo as these sections of this important Act have yet to be commenced.

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