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Seanad: An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Comhionannas Pósta) 2015: An Tuarascáil agus an Chéim Dheiridh - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Marriage Equality) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (27 Mar 2015)

Rónán Mullen: Tairgim leasú a 1: I leathanach 5, líne 12, “an t-alt a bhfuil an téacs de” a scriosadh agus “na hailt a bhfuil an téacs díobh” a chur ina ionad.I move amendment No. 1:In page 4, line 12, to delete “the section” and substitute “the sections”.I do not yet have a copy of the amendments.

Seanad: An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Comhionannas Pósta) 2015: An Tuarascáil agus an Chéim Dheiridh - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Marriage Equality) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (27 Mar 2015)

Rónán Mullen: This amendment involves deleting the term "the section" and replacing it with "the sections", which term would be necessary in the event that one of my proposed additions to the wording of the constitutional amendment is accepted.

Seanad: An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Comhionannas Pósta) 2015: An Tuarascáil agus an Chéim Dheiridh - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Marriage Equality) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (27 Mar 2015)

Rónán Mullen: Senator Feargal Quinn is due to second the amendment.

Seanad: An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Comhionannas Pósta) 2015: An Tuarascáil agus an Chéim Dheiridh - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Marriage Equality) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (27 Mar 2015)

Rónán Mullen: Is it necessary for it to be formally seconded at this point?

Seanad: An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Comhionannas Pósta) 2015: An Tuarascáil agus an Chéim Dheiridh - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Marriage Equality) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (27 Mar 2015)

Rónán Mullen: I do not believe Senator Feargal Quinn has left the House permanently.

Seanad: An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Comhionannas Pósta) 2015: An Tuarascáil agus an Chéim Dheiridh - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Marriage Equality) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (27 Mar 2015)

Rónán Mullen: Must the amendment be seconded before the debate on it can proceed?

Seanad: An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Comhionannas Pósta) 2015: An Tuarascáil agus an Chéim Dheiridh - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Marriage Equality) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (27 Mar 2015)

Rónán Mullen: Tairgim leasú a 4: I leathanach 7, idir línte 3 agus 4, an méid seo a leanas a chur isteach:“5 Ní cead alt 4 den Airteagal seo a agairt chun oibriú Airteagail 42 nó 44 nó na saoirsí agus na cearta a admhaítear sna hAirteagail sin a thoirmeasc nó a rialú nó a bhac.”.I leathanach 7, i ndiaidh líne 6, an méid...

Seanad: An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Comhionannas Pósta) 2015: An Tuarascáil agus an Chéim Dheiridh - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Marriage Equality) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (27 Mar 2015)

Rónán Mullen: No.

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)

Rónán Mullen: I will address my amendment and support Senator Healy Eames's amendment. We are discussing the issue that is at the heart of the Bill. It arose yesterday in the context of our debate on DAHR and arises in this debate in the context of adoption. In what circumstances is it okay and accurate for us to claim that, all matters being equal, it is better that a child be raised by his or her...

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)

Rónán Mullen: I am referring to the adoption laws as they stand. The second tier provides that, in the particular circumstances, a single person not related to the child may apply to adopt. This is at the level of determining eligibility. The question of the child's best interests, which many people discuss but which some overuse or occasionally misuse, arises in the context of an initial determination...

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)

Rónán Mullen: My apologies. The context is the voice of the child being heard in proceedings. Much is made of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. The Senator took some of us, perhaps without naming us, to task for misquoting or misinterpreting the convention. It is she who is misinterpreting the convention, in particular, the travaux préparatoire.

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)

Rónán Mullen: I studied French for a long time. Article 7 of the convention states children have the right, where possible, to be raised by their parents. The roles playing by a mother and a father are gender specific and important. Their complementary but different nature is vital to the optimum development of the child. Having regard to the disagreement on what constitutes "parents" under the...

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)

Rónán Mullen: They are not absent. I thought of the horse "Standing sixteen, one or two. With eyes wild and green". That was not Senator Jillian van Turnhout but the high horse.

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)

Rónán Mullen: For example, the references in Article 18 of the UN convention are critical and central to the issue because we are discussing whether there is a legitimate basis to say preference can be given to a father and a mother when these decisions are being made. The article refers to parents and provides that state parties should take all appropriate measures to ensure the children of working...

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)

Rónán Mullen: The human rights committee in general comment 17 of the 35th session of the committee in 1989 stated in respect of the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights that "No child should be separated from his or her mother". We are talking about scenarios in the future involving potential father-father arrangements. Parents, evidently, encompass in that scenario at least a mother....

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)

Rónán Mullen: There is further support in international law for the contention that a child should have a mother and a father who are married and in a stable relationship.

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)

Rónán Mullen: I am explaining why international law-----

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)

Rónán Mullen: The Hague Convention in dealing with inter-country adoption provides only for adoption by married couples. It appears to view married couples as the gold standard. The Bill allows cohabiting persons to use donor-assisted human reproduction methods and creates no distinctions in the context of adoption. If it is deemed appropriate in cases of inter-country adoption only for two parents to...

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)

Rónán Mullen: We both have.

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)

Rónán Mullen: I refer to proceedings at the health committee where are essential to this issue. Senator Jillian van Turnhout asked Dr. Shannon whether he had been misunderstood when he said marriage was the gold standard for families. In his response he said he had been misunderstood and that he had been talking about marriage in the context of all citizens having access to it. However, it is clear,...