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- 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.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Jim Walsh: That is not what was said. Nobody made that point. The Minister is missing the actual point.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Jim Walsh: Of course, it is.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Jim Walsh: The Minister is obviously ignoring all of the evidence that the best interests of the child can in general be catered for by married couples.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
Jim Walsh: She has concluded.