Results 4,081-4,100 of 4,465 for speaker:Jim Walsh
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Jim Walsh: If the Acting Chairman had listened to my opening remarks-----
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Jim Walsh: -----he would know the basis on which I am supporting it. He can ask the proposer of it if he intends that it be a mother and a father. My interpretation of it is that this is what is intended by the reference to "two parents". There is overwhelming evidence against what is being done here. Everybody knows it is being done for a singular reason, namely, to assist the referendum. My...
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Jim Walsh: The British Journal of Education, Society & Behavioural Sciencecovered an interview survey by the National Health Service carried out between 1997 and 2013 and it makes various points about children raised in same-sex couples. I will not go into the detail of it other than to make this point which is worth noting. The study's author, and it names the author, assessed "the variety of...
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Jim Walsh: That is a different statement.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Jim Walsh: That is delusional.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Jim Walsh: They are already there.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Jim Walsh: That is irrelevant.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Jim Walsh: The Minister is doing nothing for the 300,000 to 400,000 children mentioned. This is the point we are making. There is nothing in the Bill for them.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Jim Walsh: This is depriving them of a parent.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Jim Walsh: They do better in married families.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Jim Walsh: The Minister is discriminating against children.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Jim Walsh: The Minister has consistently------
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Jim Walsh: No. Senator Feargal Quinn is-----
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Jim Walsh: Fair enough; I second the amendment. I thought Senator Feargal Quinn was going to do so. The Minister has consistently argued that the Bill has very much been constructed with the best interests of the child in mind. That is not credible, but this is a test for her which will prove that either I am wrong and she is right or that she is wrong and I am right. That it is desirable that we...
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Jim Walsh: There is a bit of a difference.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Jim Walsh: Senator Norris referred to a "golden thread" and that is a very good term to describe the natural and biological link between a child and its actual parent. It is something which should inform the whole of this Bill but, unfortunately, the Minister has decided to go in the contrary direction and treat it as if it is totally insignificant. The points made by Senator Power are correct. We...
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Jim Walsh: I formally second it, even though I have a reservation.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Jim Walsh: I assure Senator David Norris that I have no interest in poking my nose into other people's lives. What two men do in their own house or, for that matter, two women or a man and a woman is of no concern of mine and I do not believe it should be. The reason I support this amendment - I take it that "legally married" means marriage as we understand it, not what it might be following the...
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Jim Walsh: It operates in Switzerland, Germany, France and Austria.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Jim Walsh: It is still on the statute book in the countries to which I refer.