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

I am making the point that legislation that empowers the State to take children from their parents without their consent and to have them adopted is very problematic if the reason the parents have failed their children is the State has failed to provide them with the basic things they need to look after their children such as a house. It is not very easy to look after one’s children if one does not have a house. It is very easy-----

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