Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The members of the transgender community came to the fore and more than stepped up to the plate and played their part in the referendum campaign. The intention of the amendment is to make sure that nobody is left behind or excluded unintentionally because the intention is to make this legislation inclusive has been stated. We need to step that up.

I am aware that the Minister met members of the transgender community and I am interested in how that meeting went. We welcome its inclusion in the explanatory memorandum but we want to make sure that we do not tell those who stood with us we that have the result we wanted and then pull the ladder up.

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