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Seanad: An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Comhionannas Pósta) 2015: Céim an Choiste - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Marriage Equality) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2015)

Jim Walsh: -----where the referendum itself is under scrutiny. Mr. Arnold has already caused the Government embarrassment and forced it to change the marriage referendum's Irish language text because it could be interpreted as banning opposite sex marriages. Constitutional law academic Dr. Seán Ó Conaill said the Government is reaping what it has sowed because it made such a mess of the...

Seanad: An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Comhionannas Pósta) 2015: Céim an Choiste - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Marriage Equality) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2015)

Jim Walsh: I feel that if I said something was white, the Minister would say it is black. I was interested in a very thoughtful and cogent contribution from Senator Zappone, on which I commend her. It probably reflects the generality of the contributions she makes in this House. She said, and I disagree with her, that the description of marriage equality is accurate. I do not believe it is, and I...

Seanad: An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Comhionannas Pósta) 2015: Céim an Choiste - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Marriage Equality) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2015)

Jim Walsh: -----be it my ideology or someone else's. I endeavour to do so. Nothing will change the natural biological differences, but I am concerned that what we are doing will have a fundamental effect on children and their prospects. I have identified those issues and will not repeat them. The Government has shown scant regard for the democratic institutions of the Republic. The routine...

Seanad: An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Comhionannas Pósta) 2015: Céim an Choiste - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Marriage Equality) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2015)

Jim Walsh: Did the Leas-Chathaoirleach ask whether my amendment was being pressed?

Seanad: An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Comhionannas Pósta) 2015: Céim an Choiste - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Marriage Equality) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2015)

Jim Walsh: I intend to press it, but the Minister did not respond to my question on the consummation of marriage. There are people who will choose an annulment over a divorce because of their religious beliefs. They can get annulments on the grounds of the non-consummation of their marriages. Will that situation be affected by this change? If so, in what way? It must have implications.

Seanad: An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Comhionannas Pósta) 2015: Céim an Choiste - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Marriage Equality) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2015)

Jim Walsh: Can I speak again?

Seanad: An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Comhionannas Pósta) 2015: Céim an Choiste - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Marriage Equality) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2015)

Jim Walsh: I will not compel her. It is appalling that the Minister does not have a response to an important and pertinent question on the subject matter before us.

Seanad: An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Comhionannas Pósta) 2015: Céim an Choiste - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Marriage Equality) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2015)

Jim Walsh: On a point of order, I was notified this morning by the Bills Office that there would be a sos of one hour at the conclusion of Committee Stage in order that Members would have an opportunity to submit amendments on Report Stage.

Seanad: Ráiteas faoi Eolas do Vótálaithe: Tairiscint - Statement for Information of Voters: Motion (27 Mar 2015)

Jim Walsh: Has the motion been agreed to?

Seanad: Ráiteas faoi Eolas do Vótálaithe: Tairiscint - Statement for Information of Voters: Motion (27 Mar 2015)

Jim Walsh: I said "No."

Seanad: Ráiteas faoi Eolas do Vótálaithe: Tairiscint - Statement for Information of Voters: Motion (27 Mar 2015)

Jim Walsh: I said it twice.

Seanad: Ráiteas faoi Eolas do Vótálaithe: Tairiscint - Statement for Information of Voters: Motion (27 Mar 2015)

Jim Walsh: The motion is not agreed. Vótáil.

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

Jim Walsh: On a point of order, are we on that amendment yet?

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

Jim Walsh: With respect, I do not believe that they are grouped together.

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

Jim Walsh: Fair enough.

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

Jim Walsh: My amendment No. 83 reads: In page 85, between lines 36 and 37, to insert the following:"(f) by inserting after subsection (7) the following subsection:"(8) In making an order the Authority must act in the best interest of the child (having a mother and a father) and will give preference, in the first instance to married male-female couples, subject to paragraphs (a), (b), (c) and (d) of...

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

Jim Walsh: The purpose of the amendment is to give preference in adoption to married mother-father couples, thus providing the child with a mother and father who are married to each other. The rationale behind that concerns the ultimate and most binding relationship commitment. Insisting that the adoptive parents be married would ensure that adoptive parents could provide the child with a stable...

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

Jim Walsh: That is not in fact true.

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

Jim Walsh: I thank the Minister for her response, in which she quoted research carried out in Britain.She did not acknowledge, as I did - I did not give details of the research at which I had looked - that the problem was that the numbers were so small that anybody involved in considering the best interests of children in this type of research readily conceded that there were insufficient numbers from...

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

Jim Walsh: There are a number of them. There are at least three of which I can think and they are as readily available to Senators here as they are to me.