Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

On the same matter, I advise the Taoiseach and the Ministers that it would be difficult to underestimate the level of grief and difficulty being caused for families and individuals by the failure to enact this legislation.

I am sure the Minister will appreciate that as children grow older families want to holiday abroad and in many cases their parental status puts their ability to do that, as a family and with their children, completely in doubt. They feel much discriminated against, notwithstanding all the good progress we all rightly celebrated last night.

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