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

Once again I bring to the attention of the House the ongoing situation in family law in this country whereby a procedure imported from the United States continues to be applied to the extent that fathers, mothers and their children are being unbelievably abused in a way I have never seen before. This abuse is continuing. Is it intended to carry out an interim inquiry into the procedure and how a means might be found to bring it to an end?

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