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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (18 Jan 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS) cannot comment on individual cases. Transfers and dispersals of international protection applicants are arranged for a number of reasons, including: maximisation of bed capacity, change in contract or status of centres, medical reasons, and upon request of the applicants. Decisions with respect to applications for international...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (18 Jan 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank the Deputy for his question. A response will issue directly to the Deputy in the coming days.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Equality Issues (18 Jan 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: In the case of the Irish Refugee Protection Programme, beneficiaries are granted refugee status prior to arrival in Ireland. A child with refugee status has the same access to health, education services and other public services as that of an Irish Citizen child. Those seeking asylum in Ireland must make an application for international protection. While that claim is being examined by...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Referendum Campaigns (18 Jan 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Government has approved Bills for two referendums which will: -amend Article 41 the Constitution to provide for a wider concept of Family; and -delete Article 41.2 of the Constitution to remove text on the role of women in the home, and to insert a new Article 42B to recognise family care. The Referendum Bills have now passed all Stages in Dáil Éireann. Following the passage of...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (18 Jan 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank the Deputy for his question. A response will issue directly to the Deputy in the coming days.

An Bille um an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: In terms of locating the obligation within the family, the approach was adopted because of the particularly onerous and ongoing nature of the care that is provided by so many family carers and the absolute level of support that gives the State. The role of the Meals on Wheels volunteer is, of course, vital in society but I am not sure we can equate that laudable value of a voluntary role...

An Bille um an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: We all know from our work as constituency Deputies that many families are providing this care, that this is a support that the State cannot do without and the depth of their commitment and the depth of the need of their commitment requires that degree of constitutional recognition and also the legal protection that the obligation to strive maintains. To that point, in terms of the use of...

An Bille um an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: My understanding is that we are not able to provide legal advice from the Attorney General. That is my understanding of the position of the Government on this and on all matters.

An Bille um an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: As I will continue to argue, it is far more robust than Article 41.2 which has achieved absolutely nothing for mothers or anybody else in our society. On the use of the words "care" and "carers", this was done very deliberately because there are two or more people in any care-based relationship. Using the word "care" reflects the view of many disability advocates who had expressed...

An Bille um an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank all the Deputies both for their amendments and their detailed contributions to this important debate. As we know, the current proposal in the Bill would delete the existing wording of Article 41.2 in its entirety and insert a brand-new article into the Constitution, Article 42B, which would recognise the role played by the family in terms of support and care provided on an unpaid,...

An Bille um an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: No.

An Bille um an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I have met them.

Ráiteas mar Eolas do Vótálaithe i ndáil leis an mBille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023 : Tairiscint - Statement for Information of Voters in relation to the Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023 : Motion (17 Jan 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: Tairgim: GO ndéanfar an ráiteas atá leagtha amach sa Sceideal a ghabhann leis an Rún seo a fhorordú mar eolas do vótálaithe, de bhun alt 23 d'Acht an Reifrinn, 1994 (Uimh. 12 de 1994), i ndáil leis an togra chun an Bunreacht a leasú, atá ar áireamh sa Bhille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach),...

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The very clear Government policy intention in terms of what is protected is relationships that are durable or relationships that are also fundamental unit groups of society and moral institutions like a one-parent family or like a cohabiting couple, whether or not it has children. Those are the relationships we seek to include within this broadened concept of the Constitution.

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: No.

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I want to respond to Deputy Bacik because she has raised an important question about relationships between parents and children and the definition of durability. It is important to say the definition of the family is a capitalised term, "the Family". That is also in Article 41. That same term is used in Article 42. In Article 42 it is very clear that "the Family" includes parent-child...

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: 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...

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: We are making a change, but we are not making a change that opens up the definition of family to the type of relationship the Deputy has suggested because there are existing guardrails. A polygamous marriage is not a fundamental unit group of society or a moral institution within this context. We have examined the question very carefully and we do not feel there is any context in which that...

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: We do have an idea because we have the existing guardrails contained in Article 41, guardrails that were deployed in the Zappone case when the court prevented a much more minor expansion of a definition within our Constitution. The court used those guardrails and said it was not for it to expand the definition. What the Deputy is suggesting is far more far reaching and there is no practice...

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: No.