Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

In response to Deputy McNamara's questions, I remember when the definition of marriage was very much a legal question in Zappone and Gilligan v. the Revenue Commissioners and Others. At that point, the court would not include a same-sex couple who had a fully legal marriage in Canada in the Irish definition because it felt at that stage the definition of marriage and family in Irish law could not include such a relationship. The court was also very clear that a change of that magnitude was one to be made by the Oireachtas or the people.

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