Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

As we speak, legislation on the matter I will raise is progressing in the Seanad and will soon come to the House. I take this opportunity to ask the Minister to use his influence to strike from the judicial conversation and script any reference to the phrase "parental alienation", on the basis it has done nothing except destroy public trust, and the trust of women in particular, in the system, who have become victims of horrendous hardship as a result of it.

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